Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister
The British press accessed records of European representatives in recent meetings circulating in the Foreign Office corridors for months
The UK cannot deport undocumented to the EU after leaving the Dublin Convention when Brexit is finalized in 2020
The main reason for Brussels’ refusal was the paralysis of the new European immigration plan, which was blocked by Poland and Hungary
The European Union (EU) will refuse to re-sign an agreement with Britain for the deportation of illegal immigrants who have arrived en masse in the country since Brexit finished. The Times newspaper said they had access to document of the EU representative at the meeting confirming the rejection of the British request. It turns out that this document has been circulating in the corridors of the British Foreign Office for some time.
That will be the record of the meeting between Bjorn Seibertchief of staff Ursula von der Leyen, and mister tim barrow UK National Security Adviser and former UK Ambassador to the EU, where they discussed the matter. In his note, Seibert said the commission was not yet ready to draft a new reporting agreement. A spokesperson for the European Commission has responded to this information and has stated that they have consulted Seibert but he does not recall writing the note.
With Brexit ending in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Dublin Convention, which allows all EU member states to deport all persons who enter their territory illegally to their home country. England left overnight from receiving 800 without papers, to 45,000 last year.
Far from seeking a new rapprochement with the EU, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson began to adopt a populist hard line against the undocumented. challenged by international human rights organizations. Liz Truss continued Johnson’s policies within days of him taking office as prime minister. Also his successor is Rishi Sunak, even though he belongs to a moderate party.
Sunak’s tone
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When it comes to illegal immigration, Sunak continues to adopt populist and austere policies imposed by his party, even bypassing parliament. laws prohibiting the acceptance of asylum seekers, contrary to international human rights conventions. The less you question them. Dan is considering abandoning the European Convention on Human Rights, despite the fact that it would violate the peace treaty in Northern Ireland.
After coming to power in October, Sunak moderating the aggressive and even threatening tone that its predecessor used, Johnson and Truss, with the EU and struck a new Brexit deal that March it set up a base for settling issues with the northern Irish border. He then tried to smooth relations with France after the Brexit tensions and met with French President Emanuel Macron to renew cooperation between the two countries. Sunak wanted to make a bilateral agreement for illegal deportations (since majority access was through France), but Macron called him to talk to the EU for a mutual agreement.
Sunak traveled to the European Council summit in Reikiavic on May 12 with the intention of meeting with Von der Leyen, with officials of the European Court of Human Rights, who blocked the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda as Sunak wanted, and with European heads of state and leaders to work together for the mutual protection of their borders.
The outcome of the meeting was not disclosed, although no agreement was announced. In recent months Sunak has stepped up punitive and hostile measures against immigration in the country like locking the undocumented in boats and camps.
Reasons for Brussels
The meeting between Seibert and Harrow took place in the days following the Reykjavic summit and apparently the results were not what Sunak had hoped for. There will be two main factors that explain the EU’s refusal or distrust of re-signing the agreement with the UK.
The first is not only allowing the British to illegally deport back to their countries of origin in Europe (mainly France) but also should participate in a collective policy to protect its borders with Greece and Italy, for example, that’s where most of the illegals enter the EU. And to accept community guidelines. And England does not want to do this.
And second, because the EU is trying to come up with a new mandatory relocation plan for immigrants that includes the obligation of all member states to accept 30,000 undocumented immigrants per year or to pay 20,000 euros for each immigrant they reject and a new bilateral agreement with Tunisia. This new European plan is currently being blocked by the ultra-conservative governments of Poland and Hungary.
A British government spokesman criticized Europe’s refusal to negotiate a new agreement. “EU countries don’t even agree to make immigration plans among themselvesso it is not surprising that they are unwilling to discuss a readmission agreement with the UK,” he criticized.
Meanwhile Britain has signed cooperation agreements with Turkey for border control there, with France, financing border controls, and with Albania, where a third of the illegal origins are. Now the entry route made by the Albanian mafia between Santander and Portsmouth has become popular because the other entrances are heavily controlled. The only solution is a deal with the EU which is actually what Labor is proposing if they come to power next year.
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