EU interior ministers are meeting on Thursday 8 December for a formal meeting dominated by the enlargement of the Schengen free movement area to Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, the latter being best placed to achieve a positive outcome.
Ministers will also be asked to take note of the state of play of the regulation on the instrumentalisation of migrants, which will allow Member States facing such situations of instrumentalisation to temporarily derogate from EU asylum rules.
They will also...