The European Union now considers seven countries to be safe for migrants to return to and will accelerate the asylum application process for those countries’ nationals, an EU official said Wednesday.
This likely means asylum applications will not be approved from those countries now that the EU has designated Kosovo, Colombia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Bangladesh and India as “safe.”
“Many Member States are facing a significant backlog of asylum applications, so anything we can do now to support faster asylum decisions is essential,” said Magnus Brunner, the European Commissioner for migration.
