On Thursday 18 May, EU foreign and migration ministers did not manage to give the decisive impulse to reform of the European asylum system and the Dublin regulation that stipulates the responsible countries. The Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU admitted at the end of the day that there was ‘clearly work to be done’ on a meeting of minds in the hope of reaching a compromise before the end of June, explained the Maltese interior minister, Carmelo Abela.
The European Summit of...