Asylum seeker

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has officially proposed the introduction of binding quotas of asylum seekers each member state is to fill.

In his first State of the Union speech as head of the EU's executive body, Juncker has said the distribution of migrants is to involve some 120 000 people more than had been previously planned.

Delivering on the European Agenda on Migrations from May, the European Commission is putting forward a comprehensive package of proposals which will help address the refugee crisis that EU Member States and neighbouring countries are facing, including by tackling the root causes making people seek refuge in Europe.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sept. 8 the EU executive would offer better protection for refugees but also improve its frontier defences and deport more illegal migrants.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is speaking in Strasbourg on Wednesday morning. This is his first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament that is set to report on his achievement and set out his vision. Much of the address is expected to focus on the refugee crisis.

The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday called on Hungary to improve the registration process and reception conditions for asylum-seekers.

It also called on Hungarian authorities to implement the recently adopted national legislation in accordance with the EU and international law and to differentiate those in need of international protection from those who are not in need.

The European Commission said on Tuesday it has allocated EUR 4M in emergency assistance to Hungary to help the country cope with the increased migrant influx across its border with Serbia.

The European Commission has set new national quotas for refugees, according to which Germany will take in 40,000, and France 30,000 people.

This is the number of refugees that will be accepted by these two countries out of the 160,000 asylum seekers that will be transferred from Italy, Greece, and Hungary, the El Pais daily said in learned in Brussels on Monday.

Australia's hardline policy on asylum-seekers, who have been pushed back by the boatload and incarcerated in offshore camps, is under pressure as public sympathy for Syrians escaping conflict swells in a nation built on migration.
 

Germany on Monday announced that Kosovo, Albania or Montenegro would be classified as "safe countries of origin", which means that people who come to Germany from those countries will be sent back more quickly, as few will be able to obtain asylum status.

Denmark has placed adverts in several Lebanese newspapers warning would-be migrants about new and tighter restrictions on those seeking asylum in the country.
 
The adverts appeared in at least three Arabic-language newspapers and one English-language daily in Lebanon on Sept.7.