EU Migration Proposal Draws Ire of Central European States – By Jamie Dettmer (VOA News) / Sept 23 2020
FRANKFURT – The European Union unveiled Wednesday a long-delayed proposal to overhaul the bloc’s migration and asylum policy and to establish a compulsory system across the 27-member bloc to handle migration.
After years of division between member states over how to respond to migrant influxes, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen called the proposal a “European solution to restore citizens’ confidence.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen talks to the press after the college of EU commissioners in Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 23, 2020.
Under the German-backed plan all 27 EU countries would be required to take part with member states either agreeing to admit asylum-seekers or to take charge of deporting migrants and refugees whose asylum applications are denied.
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