During a meeting in Madrid on Thursday 26 July, French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, drew up a joint eight page paper in which they demonstrate their convergence of views on migration. In the document they also provide support again to the concept of migrant debarkation platforms in safe third countries in North Africa and the principle of control centres in the EU. These are the elements upon which they had already reached agreement on 29 June at the...