Reforming European refugee regime to be long, “grievous” process, says official

Budapest (MTI) – Reforming the common European refugee and asylum regime will take a long time and will be a “grievous” process, the director of Hungary’s immigration authority BÁH told an international conference on migration in Budapest on Wednesday.

The common legal framework on the regime lacks provisions on protection and contains directives mostly on rights and guarantees, Zsuzsanna Végh said in her opening address to the two-day conference.

It contains only a few provisions on responsibilities and no provisions on sanctions at all without which the current migration situation cannot be resolved, she said at the conference focusing on possible solutions in tackling the migrant crisis.

Working out a solution that would be acceptable to each member state is a rather difficult task because they are driven by rather different national interests, Végh said.