In new breakthrough, EU countries agree new rules to manage future migration crises
The preliminary agreement reached on Wednesday paves the way for establishing common rules to manage an unexpected mass arrival of asylum seekers, a crucial element of the European Union's migration reform.
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00:00 More solidarity to address migration crises in the EU.
00:05 Member states agreed on Wednesday to a new regulation managing any large and sudden arrival
00:10 of migrants at European borders after long and complicated talks among EU ambassadors.
00:17 The so-called crisis regulation, as it`s being called, will allow front-line member states
00:21 to fast-track asylum procedures when there are too many irregular border crossings, but
00:26 also to share the burden of reception with other EU countries.
00:31 Final details of the law will now be negotiated with the European Parliament.
00:37 The point of the European Parliament is binding relocation programs, ordered by the commission,
00:41 by EU coordinator for relocations. But I know that there`s resistance within the council,
00:48 so we got to come towards each other`s direction so that we build a compromise that results
00:55 in some form of effective, credible solidarity, not solidarity on a card.
01:01 But not all countries agree on the redistribution of asylum seekers across the EU. Poland and
01:06 Hungary`s ambassadors voted against the deal, and the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia
01:11 also abstained.
01:14 The entry of illegal migrants into Europe is not something that we should tolerate.
01:19 We need to strengthen our border controls. And the Central European countries say no
01:24 to the relocation of people who illegally entered and then other countries want to pass
01:30 them on. That`s not going to work. It hasn`t worked, and it`s not going to work in the
01:33 future either.
01:35 The crisis regulation was the last part of a larger migration deal to be agreed among
01:39 EU countries. Now, both member states and the European Parliament hope to finalize the
01:45 reforms by the end of the year.
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