Interesting development:
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Poland suspends right to asylum in challenge to EU:
Poland will temporarily ban migrants from claiming asylum on its territory,
Donald Tusk, the prime minister, said on Saturday. Announcing the move, Mr Tusk said that Warsaw “must regain 100 per cent control over who comes to Poland”. The Civic Platform party leader said the suspension of the right to claim asylum was needed with Russia-allied Belarus funnelling migrants to the
Polish border as part of a hybrid war to destabilise
the EU.
But Mr Tusk, who was European Council president during the Brexit negotiations, also framed the move as part of wider efforts to toughen Poland’s migration policies. “If someone wants to come to Poland, they must respect Polish standards, Polish customs, they must want to integrate,” Mr Tusk said. He said neighbouring Germany, a popular destination for migrants, had “negative experiences” with immigration after ignoring integration. “If there are too many people of other cultures, then the native culture feels threatened,” the Polish prime minister added.
Countries are obliged under international law to offer asylum. To prevent legal challenges, Mr Tusk said he would “demand” the EU recognise the decision, setting up a potential clash with Brussels.
“I will demand this, I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision,” he said. “This is because we know very well how it is used by [Belarusian president Alexander] Lukashenko, [Russian president Vladimir] Putin... by people smugglers, people traffickers, how this right to asylum is used exactly against the essence of the right to asylum.”
EU leaders will meet this week in the Belgian capital for a summit set to be dominated by
migration and calls to make deportations of illegal migrants faster and easier. Earlier this year, the bloc adopted a sweeping reform of its asylum policies, hardening border procedures and compelling countries to take in refugees from under-pressure states or pay €20,000 for each they reject in a package due to come into effect in June 2026. Denmark last week became the seventh EU member state to tighten its border controls. Others include France, Italy, Austria and Sweden.
The UK’s position on asylum has changed markedly since Labour took office in July. The government vowed to scrap the Rwanda removals policy a few days after the election and has introduced a new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill which is making its way through Parliament.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has effectively cancelled the previous government’s Illegal Migration Act, which automatically denied asylum to anyone who arrived in the country illegally. Ms Cooper has said the Home Office will use fast-track decisions and returns agreements to clear the asylum backlog.
Both candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party are more hawkish on asylum policies than the Government.
Robert Jenrick has described the UK’s asylum grant rate as “offensively high” and claimed immigration judges are insufficiently scrupulous when assessing claims. The Conservative leadership candidate and former immigration minister has pledged to cut off foreign aid to countries that do not accept the return of failed asylum claimants from their country.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...1&cvid=661ce11b05cb4484a5c034fc84850a34&ei=25
I see the term 'Returns Agreements' attributed to Yvette Cooper again.
Huh?
Do we have such agreements with Afghanistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Iraq and Iran from whence many seeking asylum come?
