The EU27 interior ministers and their representatives failed, on Thursday 28 September, to reach agreement on the regulation on situations of crisis, force majeure and the instrumentalisation of migration, even though the Spanish Minister for Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez, and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said they were “absolutely convinced” that an agreement could be reached “in the next few days”.
Both took the view that the...