This has obliged the commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom to ask the Interior Ministers of Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia information about the measures that they take for preventing this phenomenon.
“I want to draw your attention about the recent figures collected by the alarm system and ask you to take the necessary measures. The data collected by the end of summer and the beginning of September indicate that some countries have a significant increase of asylum seekers, more specifically in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland”, says Malmstrom.
The commissioner’s letter has alarming data attached. Sweden reports that during August, the asylum seekers with Albanian nationality have increased with 163%, compared to the other months.
On the same position is Bosnia, while this tendency in Montenegro and Serbia has decreased.
In Germany there is a 50% increase of Albanian asylum seekers during August, in Belgium 36%.
“I would be grateful to receive from you, before the Ministerial Forum of Ohrid, an answer with a list of the measures that have been taken and those that are expected to be implemented”, says the letter secured by Top Channel.
The Forum of the Interior Ministers EU-Balkan will be held on October 3rd and 4th, in Ohrid. Besides this, the Commissioner Malmstrom invites all regional officials to an urgent meeting with the General Director of the European Commission.
The Spokesperson of the EC, Michele Cercone , declared for Top Channel that if the Balkan countries will not react on time, then the visa liberalization is in danger.
On May 2011, the Commission proposes a security law for the member countries that enabled the temporary visa suspension in case of abuses.
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