According to the French president, financial sanctions should be introduced against those EU members that refuse migrants with proven asylum status.
Speaking to reporters Saturday at a joint press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Macron stressed that Paris could not accept a situation where “countries that benefit massively from EU solidarity” give in to “national self-interest when it comes to the issue of migrants.”
According to Macron, Paris and Madrid favor the setting up of “closed centers” on European soil for recently-landed migrants which would take on refugees in a ‘coordinated way’, allowing for a speedy investigation of whether or not they qualify for asylum status. These centers should be based closest to where the migrants or refugees landed, the president said. For those applicants who are not eligible for asylum status, Macron emphasized the need for European-wide solidarity and cooperation to send these people back to their country of origin.
Macron stressed that he was in favor of “sanctions mechanisms” in cases of non-solidarity, including possible restrictions on structural EU-level aid.
The president’s remarks come on the eve of an EU-level summit on immigration set to be held in Brussels on Sunday. The leaders of the Visegrad Group of countries, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia refused to participate in the working meeting, complaining that such meetings should be organized by the European Council, not by the European Commission.
The European Union has faced major political divisions over member countries’ response to the mass influx of immigrants and refugees which began in 2015, with the EU’s Eastern European members refusing to accept migrants on a mass scale and balking at the idea of refugee quotas.
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Macron is a Soy Boy Deluxe, as bad as that child, Trudeau, from Canada. Piss on the EU and it’s Globalist Soros Pocket Puppets like Macron, Merkel, and all the overpaid, worthless EU Commissioners who sit around scatching their crotches! All of them bow down and kiss the butt of George Soros and all of them need to be on a giant gallows and hung at one time. God Bless Austria, Italy, and the Visegàrd Group of nations fighting against the insanity of bringing these barbarian Muslims to Europe. Piss on the EU and take back your own Sovereignty and tell the EU to stick their idiotic rules where the sun don’t shine! Macron would not know what Patriotism is, since he has served nothing but himself and the grandma he is married to!