2023. December 9 – 12:38
Full house in Belgium? Due to migration, the care system is becoming more and more strained, and accommodation is running out, so single women, families and unaccompanied minors are taken first. On the other hand, young people have to find housing on their own. Ruben Rodrigo, for lack of a better word, sleeps on the street and does not know what awaits him in the winter. Deutsche Welle report.
Since 2016, EU member states and members of the European Parliament have been studying how to transform the common refugee and migration regulations that collapsed a year ago. The original reform proposals were reviewed in 2020, but the package consisting of several pieces of legislation only gained momentum in June this year. That’s when member states took the leap they had failed to do before 2020: they agreed on two controversial elements of reform. (The Hungarian government has claimed that it will make the distribution of refugees mandatory, although it could be replaced by money or other means. In addition, the “isolation of migrants” has begun, while it is said that those believed to be unfounded and asylum seekers should not be allowed to enter the country, Alternatively, they can be kept in a transit area for 12 weeks.
The momentum was short-lived, as emergency refugee legislation stalled in July, making it the final element in a package that member states had yet to agree on. The decree will deal with situations such as when Belarus sent state-organized migrants, who were then escorted by the country’s border guards to the European Union.
Despite Hungarian-Polish opposition, EU members also agreed on the “missing link” in the asylum package at the beginning of October.
The video was published within the framework of cooperation between Deutsche Welle and Telex.
