Tying in with the European agenda on migration, three draft opinions on the refugee crisis were adopted by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) at a meeting of its commission for citizenship, governance, institutional and external affairs (CIVEX) in Oviedo, Spain, on Thursday 22 September.
The first opinion, by Vincenzo Bianco (PES, Italy), is on the reform of the European common asylum system. The rapporteur stresses the need to replace the current system which sees asylum granted on a...