2023-10-07 08:12:35
Update
October 7, 2023
10:12
The number of asylum seekers transferred to countries where they are to continue their procedure, often France, Germany and Austria, has increased by 79%.
A little over a year ago, the Immigration Office inaugurated a “Dublin Center” in Zaventem. “Dublin”, because it is reserved for asylum seekers arriving in Belgium after having registered a request for protection in another Member State of the European Union. According to the rule established in the Irish capital, it is in the first Member State to which the applicant addresses that he must be received.
The center therefore aims to facilitate and above all accelerate the procedures for returning this public to the countries concerned. And therefore to relieve Belgian reception capacities which, as we know, are largely saturated. Successfully, according to statistics communicated to L’Echo by Secretary of State for Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V).
Around a hundred transfers per month
Since its opening, the Zaventem center has welcomed 1,844 people for procedures lasting 28 days on averagean improvement of 28% compared to procedures carried out outside the center, she specifies.
“The total number of effective transfers from our country has increased from an average of 60 per month before the opening of the center to 101 per month since then, we continue at Nicole de Moor. In eight months this year, 853 applicants for asylum have already been transferred to the responsible Member State, which is 79% more than during the same period last year. The number of asylum seekers transferred during the first eight months is therefore already higher than for the whole of 2022 (831)”, indicates the De Moor firm. Most transfers take place towards the Austria, Germany and France.
Building on these results, the Secretary of State announces that she wants to extend this accelerated processing beyond the center of Zaventem. In the objective to reduce secondary migration which is already in decline in our country, with a drop of 18% while the number of requests is increasing at European level. Currently, 38% of asylum seekers in Belgium have already submitted an application in another country.
Nicole de Moor pleads for the proper application of the Dublin procedure, pending reform at EU level. “We must achieve a compulsory solidarity system in which each European country plays its role, and not like today where the burden is borne by a handful of countries, she said. With the European Pact on Migration what we want to achieve next year, we are going in this direction. Until this pact is in place, the Dublin rules must continue to be applied.”
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