The members of the EU Council’s Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) group could not agree on 27 September on whether to take forward the so-called ‘screening’ regulation for migrants at the external borders independently of the rest of the ‘Asylum and Migration Pact’, as requested by the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council.
The discussions revealed that the positions of the Member States are still very different, several sources said. The so-called...