Meeting in Cyprus on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 October, the interior ministers of the ‘Med5’ (Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Spain) asked their partners to help them monitor the EU’s external borders and prevent irregular arrivals.
They also asked them, in a joint declaration, to recognise their geographical specificities and to agree on a credible solidarity mechanism.
“We expect the Commission and fellow Member States to take in due consideration the specificities that result from...