SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration

Alternatives to reform of Common European Asylum System and access to electronic evidence will dominate informal ministerial meeting

Brussels, 05/02/2019 (Agence Europe)

The European Union's interior ministers will try to make progress on setting up a temporary system for disembarking migrants rescued at sea at their informal meeting in Bucharest on Thursday 7 February. 

As it has repeatedly asked, in response to new cases of rescue in the Mediterranean Sea, the European Commission wants Member States to agree on a predictable solution for migrant disembarkations in the EU and on sustainable systems for distributing migrants between voluntary countries...