SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration

Commission is still not expecting break through on concept of migrant debarkation platforms discussed in Geneva with IMO, HCR and counties concerned

Brussels, 30/07/2018 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission was not expecting any “major results” on Monday 30 July at the end of the meeting held that day in Geneva between the International Organisation for Migration (IMO), the UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR), the different countries involved in the Mediterranean and the Commission regarding the migrant debarkation platforms project in safe third countries.

According to Natasha Bertaud, the spokesperson for the Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos,...