2023-09-01 16:48:00
Politically, the reception crisis is on hold. The federal government met on Friday morning to find a compromise between the different positions to adopt in the face of Belgium’s structural inability to absorb the growing flows of migrants.
Nicole de Moor, Secretary of State in charge of Migration, had scandalized the left wing of the government by proposing to no longer welcome single men in Fedasil centres. On Friday, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo reaffirmed his support for this initiative. “We had to move forward. It’s a preventive situation to avoid finding your back once morest the wall.”
Gare du Midi: the Brussels government asks Nicole De Moor to abandon her plan to suspend the reception of single male asylum seekers
In response to the political crisis and faced with a “saturated reception network”, Nicole de Moor drew up a winter plan. The program, which was already in the coffers of the Secretary of State a few weeks ago, will be presented as an articulation between the different levels of power concerned by reception.
All those who can help relieve the structures that house asylum seekers will be called upon. It is a question of consulting the regions, of appealing to “small satellite centres” and of trying to find new accommodation for the migrants. This “new form of cooperation” also includes going to “campsites” to accommodate refugees.
This “winterplan” hinges on three fronts. Action must be taken at European level to stem the flow of migration. The De Croo government intends to take advantage of the Belgian presidency of the EU to put the migration pact back on the table. Measures will also be taken to reinforce voluntary departure from the centers in order to free up reception places. And finally, it will be necessary to regulate the legal aspect to lodge the refugees in the camp-sites generally empty the winter.
These solutions proposed during the kern made it possible to appease the dissensions. “There were no cries”, we summarize regarding the meeting of ministers. Some, unlike Alexander De Croo, however, felt that the government was already “back to the wall” and that the solutions proposed were “tinkering”.
Facing the press, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State reiterated with one voice that the objective was “obviously to welcome everyone” but that this was not possible, which is why the priority went to families and children. “Belgium is doing its part,” insisted Nicole de Moor, adding that around 35,000 reception places had been opened in the country.
Petra De Sutter was delighted to see that the “urgency” had become “obvious” to her colleagues. “Even the other parties now understand that places need to be added as soon as possible, which will automatically invalidate Secretary of State de Moor’s instruction. After all, everyone entitled to reception should be able to receive it, including single men,” Deputy Prime Minister Groen told us.
1693613612
#Requisition #camping #accelerated #procedures.. #wall #Vivaldi #draws #winter #plan #response #reception #crisis
