MEPs approve list of "safe countries" excluded from asylum - DutchNews.nl
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The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU. The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. The Netherlands scrapped its own list of safe countries last September, following a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice that placed...

The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.

The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Pretty sure being openly queer is not safe in most of those countries.

    It will be up to the asylum seeker to prove that there is a real threat of persecution or serious harm if they return.

    This leaves a lot of questions unanswered.