The EU Home Affairs Ministers, meeting on Monday 14 December by videoconference, discussed the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ and adopted, as expected, a progress report showing persistent differences on the balance between responsibility and solidarity in asylum matters.
On behalf of the EU Council Presidency, German State Secretary for Home Affairs Stephan Mayer, who replaced Minister Horst Seehofer, nevertheless considered that the Member States had achieved a breakthrough by...