Member States have responded in different ways to the proposals of the French Presidency of the EU Council made on 6 May concerning the Eurodac Regulation (see EUROPE B12946A19) and the possibility of introducing a specific category for people who disembark in the EU after being rescued at sea.
The group of southern EU countries, the ‘Med5’ (Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Spain and Greece) recalled that they were making their final agreement on this regulation conditional on progress on the...