The core cabinet agreed on a package of measures to deal with the reception crisis in the asylum network on Wednesday afternoon, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) announced in the House. The agreement means, among other things, that the Defense organization will create 750 temporary emergency shelters in warehouses in the short term. In the somewhat longer term, these places must be systematically replaced by 750 places in a container village. That village is also temporary, Defense emphasizes.
There is also a final agreement on a center with 220 places in Zaventem for asylum seekers who are registered elsewhere in the European Union and who must return there according to European rules to process their application, De Tijd writes. “We are working hard on all solutions. That is not only reception, but also return to other EU countries, including the center in Zaventem, and better outflow from the reception network,” De Moor is quoted as saying.