Taking up the Commission’s objective of speeding up the processing of asylum applications of people not eligible for protection in the EU, with new safeguards for fundamental rights and a new proposal for financial support, the report on a ‘Common Procedure for International Protection’, drafted by French MEP Fabienne Keller (Renew Europe), was relatively well received on Tuesday 26 October by MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties.
As a reminder, this...