Building ‘Strength Europe’ to make it difficult for migrants to step on European soil has become one of the obsessions of EU leaders as the ultra -right and the president of the European Commission has grown, Ursula von der Leyen, has taken the glove hardening the migratory positions of the community government. The German ignores the complaints of violations of human rights perpetrated against migrants by authorities of third countries to which the EU pays to prevent them from reaching the old continent.
Thus, in a letter sent to the leaders of the 27 before the European Council that will be held this Thursday, it presumes the agreement signed with the Tunecine dictatorship to control immigration, despite the fact that abuses, arbitrary detentions, sale to countries such as Libya and even abuse minors have been denounced. “Cooperation under the memorandum of understanding with Tunisia contributed to a decrease of 80% of the irregular exits from the tunisian coasts,” says the president of the European Commission in the letter on the agreement that contemplated the payment of 105 million euros to the dictatorship of the North African country to combat immigration and traffickers.
A report presented by the left in the Eurocamara compiled about thirty testimonies of people captured by the Tunisian authorities, who receive European money for immigration control, and sold in Libyan territory with torture and vexatious treatment. It is not the only report that has reached the European Commission since civil society since complaints are practically constant. The EU People’s own defender came to question the agreement with Tunisia for lack of guarantees of compliance with human rights.
Asked about this systematic violation of fundamental rights, the European Commission is limited to saying that “the situation follows.” “The conversations with our Tunisian counterparts continue at different levels,” says a community spokesman, who ensures that these contacts are both in the field with the European delegation in Tunisia and from Brussels. “The respect and protection of human rights are addressed through dialogue with governments and through specific development aid, aimed at promoting human rights,” they add.
“Human rights are part of the Tunisian Constitution and constitute the basis of our association, as stated in our association agreement. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, the EU and Tunisia have agreed to cooperate in migration and mobility based on the respect of the human rights of migrants and refugees, in accordance with the obligations derived from international law, ”they argue in the European Commission, despite the violations that are documented.
Von der the letter read fundamentally emphasizes the “significant” decrease in arrivals of migrants to the EU, which was 38%in 2024, mainly due to the fall in the Western Balkans route (78%) and in the central Mediterranean (59%). The flows have been referred to the Canarian route, which has experienced an increase of 18% as well as in the Eastern Mediterranean (in the runners between Libya and Crete they have grown by 14%). The defense of agreements with countries such as Tunisia or Turkey, as well as collaboration with others such as Libya, also produces the so -called third safe countries with the objective of softening the requirements imposed.
Von der Leyen also defends before the leaders of the 27 the proposal that it has put on the table to increase the deportations of migrants with a hardening of the conditions that the greatest wide manga supposes for the arrests under the wide premise of the risks for security as well as sanctions for people who do not cooperate in the process. The text approved by the European Commission also feels the foundations for the creation of deportation centers outside the EU similar to those that the Italian ultra -rightist, Giorgia Meloni promoted in Albania.
“We open the possibility to the Member States to establish” return hubs “in third countries,” says von der Leyen, which includes it in the debate on “innovative solutions” to fight irregular immigration. A majority of European countries have opted for the creation of such centers, which the Government of Pedro Sánchez completely rejects, although it is one of the few exceptions in the continent.
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