2023-08-29 18:08:00
The Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration has decided to temporarily suspend the reception of single men in Belgium.
The Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, has decided to temporarily no longer accommodate in the Fedasil network single male asylum seekers in Belgium. Behind this decision, the Secretary of State intends to anticipate “the growing influx of families and children to absolutely avoid children ending up on the streets in winter,” her cabinet announced in a press release on Tuesday.
“Not wanting to be late to events, I am already making the decision to reserve all available places for families with children“, explains Ms. de Moor, quoted in the press release. “The high number of asylum seekers who have arrived in our country over the past two years still weighs on the reception network. We continue to open new centres, but everyone has seen last year how difficult it is to create reception places. I absolutely want to prevent children from ending up on the streets.”
This year, “19,000 asylum seekers have registered in Belgium, compared to 1,500 in Portugal, a country whose population is similar to that of Belgium”.
The Secretary of State also underlines the fact that Belgium “has been doing more than its share for a long time”, specifying that this year, “19,000 asylum seekers have registered in Belgiumcompared to 1,500 in Portugal, a country whose population is similar to that of Belgium”.
The Secretary of State says she is working with her European colleagues on a migration pact which will fundamentally reform European policy on asylum and migration and which, in the long term and still according to her, should also make it possible to improve the situation in Belgium. “The pact will include a rapid procedure at the external borders and a fairer distribution of asylum seekers in Europe,” the statement read. But Ms de Moor and her cabinet stress that these measures take time and will not bear fruit immediately.
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