Extreme measures of the European Commission on refugees

The European Commission is preparing a review of the Dublin agreements on joint management of immigration by introducing a 250,000 euro fine for each refugee is not accepted by one of the EU member states, in relation to the due share. The news was revealed by the prestigious Financial Times: this would be an extreme measure to convince Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria to accept refugees, contrary to the address indicated by the respective governments.

In May last year, Brussels had set a quota policy in order to sort among the various members of the refugees arriving on European soil, on the basis of wealth is that the size of each state. Therefore, Poland would be forced to bear the weight of 6,200 immigrants and if not soon come into compliance with Community rules, would risk a fine of 1.5 billion euro.

The income from these penalties would go to Italy and Greece, which are the two countries most affected by the emergency immigration and refugees, because they are the first port of call. Only in 2015, were 1.3 million asylum seekers in Europe, of which most Syrians, followed by Afghans and Iraqis. According to the United Nations, however, to April landings in the Mediterranean would collapse by 59% on an annual basis.

From Brussels Decision are excluded United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark, countries that will continue to keep their borders closed, having benefited from the EU of the so-called "opt-out". However, always she explains the British financial newspaper, London can not rely on that clause forever.