An Italian court has ruled that seven migrants from Egypt and Bangladesh must be sent from Albania to Italy to have their asylum applications processed. The migrants’ countries of origin are not considered safe under EU law.
Nancy Faeser recommends that Frontex forces are deployed in Połowce on the Poland-Belarus border. According to Poland and the EU, Russia and Belarus are responsible for transferring migrants to the EU’s external border to destabilise the 27-member bloc.
The leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states discussed the revival of the European Union’s Dublin Regulation and the possibility of deporting illegal migrants to non-EU countries.
With Germany ramping up border controls earlier this month and other EU countries contemplating stricter migration rules, the Schengen zone of free movement – and no internal border checks – seems to be crumbling.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser met with her Romanian counterpart to discuss the countries’ cooperation on migration and asylum. As part of efforts to fully join the borderless Schengen zone, Bulgaria and Romania have recently made progress in protecting the EU’s external borders.