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Egypt Refuses Migrant Reception Centers Proposition

July 2, 2018
Stock photo EPA/GIUSEPPE LAMI

Although the European Union has recently announced a new migration deal where it seeks to  build refugee and asylum centers in the Middle East and Africa, Egypt has announced on Sunday its refusal with the idea, if asked. According to to Deutsche Welle, Albania, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria will also be refusing to build the reception centers although a vast number migrants do cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach the EU from the three last countries as well as Libya. The latter is perceived as a major transit point for refugees but communication with the Libyan authorities is hard and potentially unreliable due to the political instability of the country. At the end of June, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has  has circulated a letter to EU partners outlining a new deal in which migrants who first arrived in other countries would be returned . The EU wants to build regional centers to receive travelling refugees heading to European countries, or who had been saved from the Mediterranean sea. However, this solution has been viewed as ‘outsourcing’ the crisis; it remains unfeasible without the consent of the EU’s African and Mediterranean ‘partners’ who…


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