The European Commission wants to scrap the Dublin Regulation and create a fairer asylum system where the responsibility for caring for asylum seekers becomes more equal.
This is what the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in connection with her big speech in the European Parliament today about the state of the Union.
– The European Commission wants to create a more balanced asylum system, where more member states take responsibility for asylum seekers in a more equal way, so that the countries in Southern Europe are not allowed to carry an unreasonably heavy burden, as has been the case in recent years. This is well in line with what the Commission has talked about before.
In his speech here in the European Parliament in Brussels, von der Leyen said that they want to create a humane asylum policy – saving lives in the Mediterranean, for example, is not an election. Otherwise, there was a lot of focus on the corona pandemic in von der Leyen’s very first line speech – she described it as an awakening that showed how vulnerable we all are. But it is also an opportunity to drive change within the EU.
– This is an opportunity for change. We have a vision, we have a plan and we have the investments, let’s get it done, said von der Leyen.
These changes is mainly about the EU’s two major challenges: climate change and digitalisation.
In the climate area, von der Leyen promised, as expected, a stricter target for reduced emissions by 2030. By then, emissions should have decreased by at least 55 percent, compared with the 1990 level. Significantly higher than the current target of 40 percent reduced emissions.
She hit also a blow for international cooperation, for safeguarding organizations such as the WHO and the WTO, for corona cooperation and for spreading a future vaccine globally.
Vaccine nationalism endangers human life, being von der Leyen. She also raised a warning flag about the Brexit chance of reaching a free trade agreement is fading when the British government says it will violate the exit agreement agreed with the EU.
Overall a good speech say the Swedish parliamentarians that Ekot spoke to. But several of them had wanted to see greater climate ambitions. And many are strongly critical of the forthcoming proposal for European minimum wages, which they fear will hit the Swedish system of collective agreements.
– These are our areas of expertise where we want to keep European influence away. This mainly concerns minimum wages. But the competence discussion that is now also being opened up in the health area is a big warning flag, says Moderate Tomas Tobรฉ.
Source: ICELAND NEWS