Kosovo included in EU's “secure” list

The European Union on Wednesday has published a list of seven countries that consider “safe” in a decision to accelerate the return of migrants, thus making it more difficult for citizens of those countries to seek asylum in the bloc's countries, Report agency “AFP”

European Commission has said he is proposing to name Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia as the safe subsets of origin”.

The movement is to allow EU governments to proceed more quickly with asylum applications made by the citizens of these countries, applying an assumption that such demands have a lack of base.

Many member states are facing significant numbers of asylum demands, so anything we can do right now is to support the quickest asylum decisions, which is essential”, said Magnus Brunner, EU Commissioner for Migration.

Candidate countries must meet the basic criteria for determining as safe places, except when any conflict breaks out, the European Commission has said.

The EU had presented a similar list in 2015, but the plan was abandoned due to heated debates about whether Turkey should be involved.

Brussels has been under pressure to print irregular arrivals and to facilitate deportations, following shocks in public opinion over migration that has also sparked extreme right election triumphs in some countries.

EU leaders called in October for a new urgent legislation to increase and accelerate returns and for the Commission to assess “innovative” ways to combat irregular migration.
In response, last month the Commission unveiled a planned reform of the return system for the 27-nation bloc, which paved the way for member states to set up migrants' returns centres outside the EU.

Currently, less than 20 percent of people ordered to leave the bloc return to their country of origin, according to EU data. /Periscopi/