EU reduces asylum seeker relocations from countries under migratory pressure

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EU reduces asylum seeker relocations from countries under migratory pressure  EU countries agreed to 21,000 relocations and €420 million in financial contributions for 2026, which is less than the Commission had pitched.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/08/eu-reduces-asylum-seeker-relocations-from-countries-under-migratory-pressure  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00European countries agreed on draft legislation on Monday that would introduce return hubs for

00:07migrants in a drive to speed up deportations. Under the proposal, member states could return

00:13asylum seekers to unrelated third countries outside the EU through bilateral agreements.

00:19The hubs can be a place of transit, a step before the individual is returned to their

00:23own country of origin, or become a permanent location for those with no right to stay in

00:28the EU provided they can ask for asylum in that country. We now have the legal framework so that

00:34the member states can make reception centers and other that sort of solutions with third

00:40countries that is extremely important in order for us to change the fundamental disabilities of the

00:48current asylum system. The ways we've been talking about for many years that it's malfunctioning and

00:55that we help the wrong people and we don't help the people actually in need and we can't control

01:00migration to Europe. That is an important step forward that we just have taken.

01:08Countries also agreed on the so-called migration solidarity pool for 2006. The EU's Asylum and

01:14Migration Management Regulation recommends that at least 30,000 people need to be relocated across

01:20the EU from countries under migrant pressure, but the bloc's home affairs ministers considered the

01:25needs to consist of just 21,000 people. Four countries, Czechia, Croatia, Austria and Poland,

01:33were granted a total exemption from contributions to relocations and financial contributions to the

01:38solidarity on migration. Civil society organizations have criticized the introduction of turn hubs as an

01:47inhumane practice that will increase abuses and overall human rights violations to work.

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