Finland: Emergency law on migration inconsistent with EU law and must be “rigorously scrutinized”

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Reacting to the Finnish Parliament’s approval of the emergency law on the so-called “instrumentalization” of migration, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe, Dinushika Dissanayake said:“This law gravely undermines access to asylum and the protection from refoulement in Finland. It not only endangers the rights of people seeking safety, but it will also lead to arbitrariness and violence at the border.“Such a law should never have been passed.

It goes beyond all powers granted under EU law and we expect the European Commission to rigorously scrutinize its legality.”BackgroundThe new emergency law defines the “instrumentalization” of migration as actions by “states or other actors” to facilitate irregular migration movements into another country in an attempt to destabilize it.

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