While the European Commission has not decided when it will present its Pact on Asylum and Migration to recast the 2016 asylum legislative package, on 9 April, Germany, Spain, France and Italy asked the two competent European Commissioners, Ylva Johansson and Margaritis Schinas, to include in the Pact a binding mechanism for the distribution of asylum seekers in the event of sudden migratory pressure in a member country.
This letter written by the Interior Ministers of these countries,...