Lithuania wanted to tighten asylum provisioning rules in the European Union. The urgent need to change the refugee reception system was announced by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Arnoldas Abramavicus, reports ERR.
“arrive in the European Union and say the magical word” refuge “no longer helps. We must create a system in which we could easily send home crossing the boundaries during the procedure on the border,” Abramavicus said. In his opinion, migrants abuse existing order than creating an exorbitant load on the Migration Service of Lithuania.
Total out of 3 thousand petitions of arrivals of migrants from countries of the Middle East, refuge provided only 60 people, and another 50 people received a residence permit in the EU for humanitarian reasons. In the current situation, the Lithuanian official vinit Russia and Belarus. According to Abramavicus, Moscow and Minsk generously distributed visas to people in distressed countries around the world, and then they stopped their action, leaving before the choice – to return to their homeland or escape to the EU.
Compared to 2020, the migration pressure on the eastern border of the European Union has really grown. Last year, the number of asylum applications in the Baltic States was measured by one-time cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. So, in Lithuania, only nine such statements were filed, in Latvia – eight, and only three in Estonia. Due to the migration crisis on the EU border with Belarus, the number of appeals predictably increased.
Previously, in Lithuania, first detained representatives of organized crime, trying to illegally carry refugees across the border. According to the law enforcement officers of the republic, this is a sign that now on the migration crisis plans to earn a criminal world of Lithuania.