At an informal ‘Home Affairs’ meeting in Budapest on Monday 22 July, the EU27 interior ministers and their representatives discussed ways of reducing illegal immigration towards the EU, and agreed on the need to develop new partnerships with third countries of origin and transit, along the lines of those undertaken with Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt.
“Without cooperation with third countries, there can be no progress”, summed up the Hungarian Interior Minister, Sándor Pintér, who also...