EU have reached an agreement on the fair distribution of asylum seekers in the European Union. Under the agreement EU countries were migration pressure is lower than average either have to take in additional asylum seekers arriving in other members states such as Greece or Italy or pay countries like these where migration pressure is high to help them deal with the flow of migrants. Belgium has opted for the later and will pay around 13 million euro to EU to member states that are under heavy migration pressure.

by No_Substance_99

14 comments

  1. Isn’t that the way it is supposed to be? Ask asylum in the first country you enter when entering the EU

  2. Funny how this new EU migration plan is being portrayed in the media as a tightening of the screws on migration policy, when actually we’re threatened to get more migrants unless we pay up. Fuck the EU once again

  3. This is undoubtedly a mouth-watering policy for the N-VA electorate, but it doesn’t seem like the most economically fruitful one. In a time when our country needs strict budgetary reform to limit its insane spendings, wouldn’t it be better to bring these asylum seekers here where they can actually contribute to the economy by buying goods and, after their 4-month waiting period, by working here? Keeping them in Greece or wherever *sounds* nice, but it’s effectively another expenditure we taxpayers have to cough up money for.

    Edit: and not just a small expenditure either, but 12.9 *million* euros.

  4. 13 million is nothing compared to the cost of those people to our society

  6. 13 million is nothing compared to the cost of those people to our society

  8. It’s such a bizarre system. So we’re paying over 10mil to not take in people? And if we don’t pay then we have to take in thousands of people in a country that’s already quite full. Wth

  9. Seems like a decent arrangement given the circumstances

  10. What’s the difference? Thanks to Schengen many will travel on to cities like Brussels or Paris anyway, either legally or illegally. We are the holy grail. No one makes the trip to Europe to get stuck in the poor countries of the EU.

  11. Poland and Hungary have been doing it for some time, I’d say it worked well for them. Danemark has woken up quite suddenly and effectively. Even Sweden has began to say stop. 

    Time to close the gates, the asylum status has been abused for long enough.

  14. Oof nothing gets the racism out like news about asylum seekers
    Is there no humanity left?

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