Meeting in Brussels on Thursday 12 December, EU home affairs ministers discussed the situation in Syria and the treatment of Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in the EU.
They also looked again at so-called “innovative” solutions for reducing irregular arrivals in the EU, and recognised the need to find third countries with which to develop new projects, the Hungarian Interior Minister, Sándor Pintér, summed up.
On Syria, the new European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and...