Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001869/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Kostas Papadakis (NI)
The Commission’s communication on ‘accelerating the implementation’ of certain provisions of the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ response package signals the acceleration and escalation of the repression and expulsion of people uprooted by imperialist wars. There are two aspects to the proposal: the implementation of pretextual fast-track border procedures enabling the immediate rejection of asylum applications made by people coming from countries with an acceptance rate lower than 20 %, and the creation of a list naming seven countries as potential ‘safe third countries’.
Can the Commission therefore answer the following:
- 1.What view does it take of the fact that ‘accelerated border asylum procedures’ will lead to the non-individualised and pretextual examination of asylum applications with blanket rejections, and thus expulsions, in breach of the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees?
- 2.What view does it take of the fact that, since the list of ‘safe third countries’ is ‘dynamic’ and will be revised, this opens the door, based on the provisions of the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’, to returns and deportations to countries that are even at war, to supposedly ‘safe’ areas thereof?
- 3.What view does it take of the fact that the list of ‘safe third countries’, together with the legal possibility of setting up concentration camps in third countries, promotes the brutality of banishing people uprooted by war and other causes to countries with which they have no connection and their detention in deplorable conditions, as is the case with the Italy-Albania agreement?
Submitted: 12.5.2025