Despite the focus on Ukraine, Interior Ministers of EU Member States were able to exchange views on Thursday 3 March on the ‘Migration and Asylum Pact’ and the first stage of the gradual approach pursued by Paris: it consists of agreeing on elements of responsibility at external borders (screening of migrants, Eurodac regulation), a counterpart of solidarity (voluntary relocation, financial support) and a new approach with regard to third countries.
If the idea put forward by the French...