2023-10-06 17:51:50
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Hungary and Poland block declaration on migration
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Chancellor Scholz announces the results of the EU summit
A decision will be made in December as to whether accession negotiations will begin with Ukraine and Moldova and whether Georgia will be granted accession candidate status. In Granada, Chancellor Olaf Scholz pushed for a reform of the EU in order to prepare itself for the admission of further countries.
The EU states agreed on a declaration at the informal Granada summit – but the topic of migration remained excluded for the time being. Because: Poland and Hungary blocked the agreement. Meanwhile, Scholz accused them of waving refugees through.
The heads of state and government of the 27 EU states agreed on a declaration at an informal European Union summit in Granada, Spain, but excluded the issue of migration because Hungary and Poland refused to agree. Nevertheless, the planned asylum reform is on track and “the chances are good that we will get it over the finish line,” reassured EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday after the meeting in Granada.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used the meeting to launch a new broadside against the European Union. On Friday he not only criticized migration policy with drastic words, but also announced a blockage of new billions in aid for Ukraine. He received support from Poland.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor at the summit in Granada with Volodymyr Zelenskyj
Source: Peter Klaunzer/KEYSTONE/dpa
Hungary and Poland were “raped” with the recent EU agreement on the asylum package, Orban said. This week in Brussels, both countries were the only states to vote against the so-called crisis regulation, which provides for stricter measures in the event of the arrival of particularly large numbers of migrants in Europe. But Budapest and Warsaw were outvoted. That is why Orban and the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki blocked the migration part of the joint “Granada Declaration”.
Scholz: “This cannot be blocked by individuals”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have put into perspective warnings from the national-conservative governments of Poland and Hungary that the desired EU asylum law reform can still be stopped. “This cannot be blocked by individuals,” emphasized the Chancellor on Friday in Granada, Spain, after the conclusion of the informal EU summit. He is therefore confident that an agreement negotiated in the trilogue between the EU Parliament, the EU Commission and the EU Council will still be successful. He firmly assumes that a regulation will then apply to all 27 EU states. Macron made similar comments.
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At the same time, Scholz accused states such as Poland and Hungary of taking a contradictory position on refugee policy. It cannot be the case that countries that take a hard line in the EU asylum debate “wave those who arrive at them through so that they can arrive in Germany,” he said on Friday after the end of the EU summit, without both of them to specifically name countries.
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The EU wants to pass the asylum reform before the European elections in June 2024. A major problem in European migration policy is that member states are already not adhering to the rules of the existing common European asylum system.
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