The Conservative Party and FRP want a stricter refugee policy – KrF strongly disagrees

The austerity measures are the main points of the Conservative Party’s and the Progressive Party’s new, joint policy, formulated in a recent recommendation from the Storting’s municipal committee, Vårt Land reports.

Like the British Rwanda agreement

The Conservative Party and FRP believe that the government must, among other things, tighten access to family reunification, as well as negotiate agreements with third countries that ensure protection for people with “real protection needs”.

In addition, they ask the government to investigate a system where Norway provides protection to vulnerable people who need protection “by paying for relocation to safe third countries”.

If this becomes a practical Norwegian policy, Norway may be able to follow the example of Great Britain, which has signed agreements with Rwanda in Central Africa to accept refugees and process their asylum applications, according to the newspaper.

KrF: – Directly irresponsible

Another bourgeois party, the Christian People’s Party, which cooperated with the two parties when they were in government, is not part of this policy.

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– Sending asylum seekers to a third country is directly irresponsible and can lead to serious human rights violations. This is not something Norway should contribute to, says deputy chairman of KrF, Dag Inge Ulstein, to NTB.

He points out that the countries that send their asylum seekers to third countries have not set any standards in the camps or the protection of basic human rights.

On par with the 2015 crisis

Mari Holm Lønseth, spokesperson for immigration policy in the Conservative Party, points out that the arrivals of asylum seekers in Europe are now at the highest level since the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016.

– Other European countries are tightening up. Norway must also do this to be better prepared if we were to have a new refugee crisis on top of the one we are already in, she says to NTB