The European Union’s Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministers agreed in a joint videoconference meeting on Monday 15 March to propose more comprehensive partnerships, including trade or the use of the ‘Erasmus’ programme, with third countries of origin and transit of migrants, and not just based on security cooperation and the return of irregular migrants.
They also suggested meeting “at least once a year” in a ‘Jumbo’ Council formation, Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita said,...