Rabat process

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The Rabat Process (French: Processus de Rabat , English: Rabat Process ) is an intergovernmental dialogue and consultation framework that was initiated by the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) to facilitate a dialogue on migration and development between the EU and to create West and North African states. Since 2006 , it has brought together more than sixty European countries as well as countries from North , West and Central Africa , but also the European Commission and the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) in order to cope with the challenges related to the growing migration from Africa to Europe . It is named after the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco , Rabat .

According to the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), the Rabat process comprises specific initiatives in the following three areas: a) the organization of legal migration, b) the fight against illegal migration and c) the strengthening of synergies between migration and development .

According to the ICMPD, the approach of a dialogue within the framework of regional and international partnerships, as it underlies this process and also the Budapest Process, the Khartoum Process and the Mediterranean Transit Migration Dialogue, is essential for achieving consensus and progress on key issues .

Conferences

So far, four ministerial conferences have taken place within the framework of the Rabat process: 2006 in Morocco, 2008 in France, 2011 in Senegal and 2014 in Italy. The fifth conference took place in Marrakech on May 2, 2018, at which the “Marrakesh Political Declaration” on cooperation measures in the areas of displacement and migration for the period of action 2018-2020 was agreed. (It must not be confused with the “ Marrakech Declaration ” on the future of religious coexistence and the rights of religious minorities , which was passed at the end of January 2016. )

aims

According to the final document, the ten objectives for action that were agreed at the fifth conference for the period 2018-2020 by the 27 European and 28 African countries present are as follows:

"1. Maximizing the positive impact of regular migration for development;

2. Achieving a common understanding of the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement in the Rabat Process region;

3. Promote regular migration and mobility, especially of young people and women, between Europe and North, West and Central Africa and within these regions ("Promote regular migration and mobility, especially of young people and women, between Europe and North, West and Central Africa, and within these regions ");

4. Promoting facilitate the procedures for issuing visas ( "Encourage facilitation of visa issuing procedures");

5. Measures promoting to strengthen the protection of refugees and other displaced persons ( "Promote measures aiming to strengthen the protection of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons");

6. Promote the integration of refugees and displaced persons in the host societies (“Promote the integration of refugees and forcibly displaced persons into host communities”);

7. Capacity building of public institutions with expertise in the areas of integrated border management and prevention and fight against human smuggling and trafficking ( "Build the capacities of public institutions with competency in the areas of integrated border management, and the prevention and fight against migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings ”);

8. Improve the protection of migrants and persons in need of international protection who have been smuggled, and victims of trafficking in human beings "to improve the protection of migrants and persons in need of international protection, who have been smuggled or victims of trafficking in human beings" );

9. Strengthening the capacities of the competent authorities in order to improve and ensure the identification processes and the issuing of travel documents;

10. Promotion of programs that a safe return and sustainable reintegration of migrants in full respect for the rights and dignity guarantee ( "Encourage program did Ensure the safe return and sustainable reintegration of migrants, in full respect of Their rights and dignity" ). "

signing

Hungary was the only EU country to refuse to sign the Marrakesh Political Declaration , which recognizes the benefits of immigration for global development. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó justified the Hungarian rejection with the declaration that migration is a "necessary, positive phenomenon" . "We think that this is an unbalanced approach and we disapprove of it," said Szijjarto in Marrakech.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No - EU does not agree to accept up to 300 million migrants from Africa. Corrective , July 18, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Rabat Process" on the SEM website (accessed on July 21, 2018
  3. ↑ Global Compact for Migration; An Agenda for tomorrow and beyond. ICMPD, November 2017, accessed on February 24, 2019 . P. 10.
  4. ↑ Rabat Process. In: www.icmpd.org. International Center for Migration Policy Development, accessed July 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The agreement is available on the website of the European Commission: "Marrakesh Political Declaration"
  6. ↑ See note 3
  7. ↑ Quotation from Hungary does not want to ratify the European-African declaration on migration , Die Zeit, May 2, 2018