Correspondent Kysia Hekster:
“The European emergency measures are being introduced at a striking moment. They come at the moment when the crisis has actually de-escalated. It is a concession to make the asylum procedure easier, but the timing is striking, because the situation is less now. urgently than last month, many people who were in the border region have now left.
The Commission itself says that it is now happening at the request of the countries themselves. The committee will not respond to criticisms of pushbacks by Poland, nor to questions about Poland’s extension of the state of emergency.”
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