{"id":25664,"date":"2022-12-12T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/eu-increases-visa-fee-to-force-gambia-to-accept-deportees"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:20:19","slug":"eu-increases-visa-fee-to-force-gambia-to-accept-deportees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/eu-increases-visa-fee-to-force-gambia-to-accept-deportees","title":{"rendered":"EU increases visa fee to force Gambia to accept deportees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Seeking to improve The Gambia\u2019s cooperation on the return and reintegration of its nationals, the European Union Council Thursday announced the increment of Schengen visa fees for Gambian citizens by 50 percent.<\/b><\/p>\n

The new measure will see a spike from \u20ac80 to \u20ac120 in Schengen visa fee for Gambian passport holders.<\/p>\n

In a press release, the EU said that the measure has been taken as \u201cleverage in order to push The Gambia to cooperate\u201d in the return and readmission of its nationals currently illegally staying in one of the EU Member States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision is a response to the lack of substantial and sustained improvement in cooperation on readmission with The Gambia,\u201d the Council said in a statement. \u201cIn particular, cooperation on identification and return remains challenging, the timeframe set by the EU-Gambia readmission arrangement has not been adhered to, and a unilateral moratorium on returns by charter flights remained in place until March 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November, the EU Commission adopted the proposals to tighten visa restrictions for citizens of The Gambia and Senegal, citing the two countries\u2019 failure to cooperate with them in readmission.<\/p>\n

These measures are a result of The Gambia\u2019s refusal to cooperate with the EU after both the European Council and the Council have continuously highlighted the need to mark real progress on the return and readmission of Gambians to their home country, the statement added.<\/p>\n

The speaker at the Refugee Council of Baden-Wu\u0308rttemberg for Gambia, and migration advocate Yahya Sonko, said the new EU measures are unfair to The Gambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gambia has been cooperating. Look at the number of Gambians deported since the coming of the Barrow regime. It will be unfair for the EU to compare The Gambia with other African countries, and want them to accept deportees every month based on the so-called Good Practices document.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gambia government has never publicly acknowledged the signing of the EU Good Practices document which calls for amongst others monthly acceptance of deportees, but Mr Sonko said it is the document EU is banking on to justify returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU is relying on that agreement that they have with The Gambia government. This is why it\u2019s difficult for The Gambia government to continually say no to the EU,\u201d the migration activist explained.<\/p>\n

The Gambia government, he added, \u201cmust be bold enough\u201d to admit to its mistake of signing any such agreement, and demand to renegotiate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should call the EU to the negotiating table and tell them that we as a country simply don\u2019t have the capacity to handle these returns,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Seeking to improve The Gambia\u2019s cooperation on the return and reintegration of its nationals, the European Union Council Thursday announced the increment of Schengen visa fees for Gambian citizens by 50 percent. The new measure will see a spike from \u20ac80 to \u20ac120 in Schengen visa fee for Gambian passport holders. 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