Buxadé Report, Vox's great victory in the EU and what it implies in terms of immigration

@ElentirENG ES 4·11·2024 · 7:01 0

The Spanish party Vox scored a great victory yesterday in the European Parliament with the approval of the so-called Buxadé Report.

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This is, surely, one of the biggest parliamentary victories for Vox, which is part of the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), in the five years it has been in Brussels and Strasbourg. This Wednesday, the official website of the European Parliament explained this report in this way and what its implications will be:

MEPs endorsed a more effective system to identify people arriving into the EU, with improved statistics and better data protection safeguards.

The revised Eurodac Regulation will improve the collection of data on asylum applicants and irregular migrants apprehended in the EU member states territory through biometric data - by adding facial images to existing fingerprinting databases - and additional information, including name, surname, nationality and date and place of birth. Authorities will also include information on decisions to remove and return the person or relocate them. The regulation was adopted with 404 votes to 202 and 16 abstentions.

Lowering the age of identification from 14 to 6 years old

The threshold for collecting data from a child will be lowered from 14 to 6 years of age, to be taken by trained staff in a child-friendly manner. This information will make it easier to identify unaccompanied minors who may abscond from care institutions or child social services, and help keep track of minors that are separated from their families and might then be found in another member state.

Security flags

Authorities will be able to record in the system if a person presents a threat to internal security, only if the person is violent or unlawfully armed, or where they have links to terrorism or a terrorist group, or are involved in offences within the scope of the European arrest warrant.

The European Parliament's website also includes this statement from the report's rapporteur, Jorge Buxadé:

Member States will finally have a functioning database to store and check fingerprints, facial images, travel documents, and all the information needed to identify individuals illegally staying in the EU. Competent national authorities will have all the information needed to identify all illegals, including those who attempt to avoid being identified. The new database will prevent secondary movements, and will facilitate the work of the authorities to return those with no right to stay. Moreover, Eurodac will contain security flags on those individuals that could pose a threat to the Member States' internal security. Asylum authorities will be informed about threats to act accordingly. With the new Eurodac we protect our neighbourhoods and our social security systems. This is the EU showing added value!

Once approved by the European Parliament, these new rules must now be approved by the European Council, made up of the twenty-seven heads of state or government of the member countries, the president of the European Commission and the president of the European Council. "The regulation will enter into force twenty days after publication in the EU Official Journal and will start applying two years after," the European Parliament website says.

Eurodac (European Dactyloscopy) is the European fingerprint database, which is used to identify illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. It was created in 2000 and reformed in 2013. It is currently operational in 31 countries, including the 27 member states of the EU and four associated countries: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Buxadé Report implies a considerable improvement in security at the borders of these 31 countries, and could serve to more effectively locate criminals who have entered the EU borders illegally, those who use false documentation and those who seek to take advantage, for example, of social assistance in two different countries illegally.

From here I want to convey my congratulations to Jorge Buxadé and the other deputies and collaborators of the Vox delegation in the EU for the hard work they have done to obtain the approval of this report. I take this opportunity to reflect: it took Vox to come to the European Parliament for this regulation to be approved, which will improve our security, by putting more and better information in the hands of the Member States to combat illegal immigration . If Vox were not in the European Parliament, perhaps this norm would not have been approved. This has indeed been a useful vote. Think about it when you go to vote in the European elections in June.

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Photo: Vox Europa.