The interior ministers of the southern EU countries, known collectively as the ‘Med 5’ (Italy, Greece, Spain, Malta and Cyprus), met on Monday 14 February to discuss the Pact on Migration and Asylum in view of the formal Home Affairs Council on 3 March, where they will present a common position.
They agreed on the “need for concrete European solidarity towards countries of first entry - which should also include the willingness of a critical mass of Member States to adopt, inter alia,...