Children No Longer Grounds For Asylum In Belgium

As of this Monday, August 4th, Belgium is nary longer allowing children to beryllium utilized arsenic a assets for prolonging accommodation, avoiding deportation and receiving asylum. The move is aimed astatine making nan rules for family reunification overmuch much difficult, EU News said.

The national Belgian government, a conjugation of Flemish nationalists (N-Va), French-speaking liberals (Mr), French-speaking Christian Democrats (Les Engagés), Flemish Christian Democrats (CD&V), and Flemish Socialists (Vooruit), has introduced caller rules whose legitimacy remains to beryllium proven. 

As of this Monday arsenic well, nan authorities will revoke asylum seekers’ correct to accommodation who reapply without introducing aliases adding caller elements to their applications done a insignificant kid aft an first refusal.

Putting an ‘end to usage of minors’

The Minister for Asylum and Immigration, Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-Va), argues that this will “put an extremity to nan usage of minors to prolong procedures and accommodation.” 

In matters of migration and family reunification, nan Court of Justice of nan EU has been called upon respective times successful caller years to springiness its opinion. 

There is already lawsuit rule and rule produced by judgments, which person connected respective occasions upheld nan supremacy of children’s law. It will truthful beryllium basal to hold and spot really and whether nan caller Belgian regulations will contradict EU rule and lawsuit law. In nan meantime, Belgium turns complete a caller leafage and launches an anti-accommodation policy. 

Belgium limits who they receive

Also, arsenic of August 4th, according to EU News, nan group who person received protection elsewhere successful nan EU will nary longer beryllium admitted to nan Belgian reception system. 

This intends nary accommodation successful nan facilities, and a “de facto” responsibility to time off nan state to spell to wherever world protection has been obtained.

Belgium’s Federal Agency for nan Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) successful mid-July reported they and their partners had received complete 33,000 asylum seekers, 1 3rd of whom are minors.

Fedasil said astir asylum seekers travel from war-torn countries, specified arsenic Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, nan Democratic Republic of Congo and Eritrea.