{"id":130227,"date":"2024-05-08T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:35:47","slug":"eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit\/","title":{"rendered":"EU migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia have to be \u2018revised,\u2019 says Nicolas Schmit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130227\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe multi-million deals that Brussels has signed with neighbouring countries to decrease irregular migration have to be &#8220;revised,&#8221; says Nicolas Schmit, the lead candidate of the European socialists for the June elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m quite reluctant with these deals which have to still to prove efficient. We&#8217;re spending now huge amounts of money, giving this money to different regimes or governments like the Tunisian government. We know the authorities there are really treating very badly the refugees,&#8221; Schmit told Euronews in an exclusive interview filmed on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 &#8220;We still have the problem in Lybia, where there (are) two governments. We have the question in Egypt. So I&#8217;m quite reluctant with this kind of deals,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;I think we have to revise them and see what can be done, how can we do it differently because we do not know exactly how the money is used.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the statement, Schmit, the current European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, openly breaks ranks with his boss, President Ursula von der Leyen, who over the past year has promoted the policy of signing agreements with neighbouring countries, such as Tunisia, Mauritania and Egypt, in a bid to boost their fragile economies and decrease the departure of irregular arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy, which foresees millions in EU funds and investment projects for the recipient nations, enjoys ample backing across the board, including from Italy&#8217;s Giorgia Meloni, Greece&#8217;s Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Belgium&#8217;s Alexander De Croo and Spain&#8217;s Pedro S\u00e1nchez, all of whom have, at one point, joined von der Leyen on her official trips.<\/p>\n<p>But these deals, often referred to as &#8220;memorandums of understanding,&#8221; have been heavily criticised by humanitarian NGOs and migration scholars, who argue they are badly designed, lack transparency and rely on a vote of confidence on autocratic governments. Widespread reports of human rights violations in Tunisia and Egypt have cast a long shadow over their ethical legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>The latest chapter in this policy is Lebanon, where last week von der Leyen announced a \u20ac1-billion assistance package to relieve the crisis-stricken country&#8217;s financial woes and prevent a surge of refugees heading towards Cyprus. The envelope, made entirely of grants, will be gradually rolled out until 2027.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard now that there has been a deal with Lebanon to keep the Syrians away from Europe, where nobody knows exactly how the money which has been announced will be spent in Lebanon, given the situation of the Lebanon government, which is, in some way, a very weak government,&#8221; Schmit said.<\/p>\n<p>During his interview with Euronews, the 70-year-old Luxembourg native lambasted the so-called &#8220;Rwanda model,&#8221; which the United Kingdom has established to fly migrants to the African country and process their asylum claims onsite. Crucially, if the claims are approved, the refugees will be granted asylum in Rwanda, rather than on UK soil.<\/p>\n<p>In its manifesto, the centre-right European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) floats a vague project similar to the &#8220;Rwanda model&#8221; to partially outsource the processing of applications. Von der Leyen, the EPP&#8217;s lead candidate, has denied the comparison and insisted any plan would be compatible with international law. &#8220;I am absolutely against what we call the &#8216;Rwanda model.&#8217; This is against the basic rights and fundamental rights Europe is built on,&#8221; Schmit said. &#8220;Just delegating the treatment of refugees to Rwanda or whoever is a question of non-respect of human dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given their common workplace \u2013 the European Commission \u2013 but opposing political affiliation, Schmit and von der Leyen find themselves in a peculiar position as they campaign as the Spitzenkandidaten of the PES and the EPP, respectively. Von der Leyen, though, is the indisputable frontrunner thanks to her strong connections with EU leaders and the favourable polling of her party, widely expected to remain the largest force in the European Parliament after the June elections.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/05\/07\/eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/05\/07\/eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia-have-to-be-revised-says-nicolas-schmit\/\">EU migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia have to be \u2018revised,\u2019 says Nicolas Schmit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,14442],"class_list":["post-130227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu-migration-deals-with-egypt-and-tunisia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}