EU tensions are sharping as member states quietly restart “Dublinanti” returns, prompting border checks, political pushback and a renewed clash over who carries responsibility for incoming migrants.
Asylum seekers are labelled ‘Dublinanti’ by the Italian press if, having applied for protection in the first state in which they were identified according to the procedures of the Dublin II Regulation of 2003 , they move to another EU state where they make a new asylum request. In this case the Regulation provides that they must be returned to the country in which they were identified for the first time and which will handle the application.
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