European countries that refuse to share the burden of high immigration will face a financial charge of about €250,000 per refugee, according to Brussels’ plans to overhaul the bloc’s asylum rules. [From the Financial Times:]
The punitive financial pay-off clause is one of the most contentious parts of the European Commission’s proposed revision of the so-called Dublin asylum regulation, due to be revealed on Wednesday …
According to four people familiar with the proposal, this contribution was set at €250,000 per asylum seeker in Monday’s commission draft.
