EU's new migration pact takes effect amid criticism
The EU's Asylum and Migration Pact enters into force with €6 billion for biometric data. Critics warn of reduced safeguards and potential rights violations.
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EU migration pact takes effect: €6 billion for biometric data and plenty of doubts
This Friday, 12 June, the EU's new Asylum and Migration Pact has become either a dead letter or enforceable law, depending on how you look at it. The reform, which took a decade of negotiations, kicks off with a budget of €6 billion earmarked for collecting biometric data from asylum seekers. Human rights organisations have already cried foul: reduced protection, abusa safeguards. But the scepticism does not only come from that side.
€6 billion for a database: solution or control?
The package aims to estimulante ilegal up asylum processing and deportations, but the core of the investment is the biometric systems. Some see it as a step towards a digital dictatorship: "spending €6 billion to entrench their dictatorship", as the most critical analyses put it. Others point out that the real problem is that the EU is trying to salvage the situation after detonating a migration atomic bomb. There is no shortage of irony when it is recalled that Syria and Afghanistan are already "perfectly pacified", according to some, which would leave thousands of asylum claimants without grounds.
A pact that comes too late and with many doubts
For some, the scary thing is that there was no stricter control until now. For others, the pact is a first step towards maximum entry quotas and sanctions for wayward governments. In between lies the scepticism of those who think it is all a diversion of money and that someone will pocket it. The curious thing is that, while the Brussels bureaucrats celebrate the first step towards a common policy, an uncomfortable question keeps coming up: if the money goes to databases instead of integration, which side is humanity on?
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This Friday, 12 June, the EU's new Asylum and Migration Pact has become either a dead letter or enforceable law, depending on how you look at it. The reform, which took a decade of negotiations, kicks off with a budget of €6 billion earmarked for collecting biometric data from asylum seekers. Human rights organisations have already cried foul: reduced protection, abusa safeguards. But the scepticism does not only come from that side.
€6 billion for a database: solution or control?
The package aims to estimulante ilegal up asylum processing and deportations, but the core of the investment is the biometric systems. Some see it as a step towards a digital dictatorship: "spending €6 billion to entrench their dictatorship", as the most critical analyses put it. Others point out that the real problem is that the EU is trying to salvage the situation after detonating a migration atomic bomb. There is no shortage of irony when it is recalled that Syria and Afghanistan are already "perfectly pacified", according to some, which would leave thousands of asylum claimants without grounds.
A pact that comes too late and with many doubts
For some, the scary thing is that there was no stricter control until now. For others, the pact is a first step towards maximum entry quotas and sanctions for wayward governments. In between lies the scepticism of those who think it is all a diversion of money and that someone will pocket it. The curious thing is that, while the Brussels bureaucrats celebrate the first step towards a common policy, an uncomfortable question keeps coming up: if the money goes to databases instead of integration, which side is humanity on?
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