Brussels, 05/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - As indicated by Commission President José Manuel Barroso in his reply to the letter from Italian and French leaders Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy (see EUROPE 10369), the European Commission has, in its communication on migration on 4 May, put down in black and white the principle of making economic aid to the countries of the southern Mediterranean dependent on their undertaking to tackle illegal emigration.
In its text, the Commission says...