Transfers/migration : Ministers bely urgency of issue

They refer the issue back to the technical experts and await a mandate from the European Council

Édition Pouvoirs

Loreline Merelle

16 juin 2015 à 18h00

EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos (L-R), Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, French Foreign Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere — BELGA

"We are three friends faced with a difficult problem," said Bernard Cazeneuve at the end of a discussion on migration with his home affairs colleagues, Thomas de Maizière (Germany) and Angelino Alfano (Italy). The surface unity displayed by three ministers in the margins of the Council after the debate on migration was nonetheless uneasy. Only the German and French ministers had spoken about the distribution mechanism proposed by Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos during a discussion in the morning, which yielded…

Responsibility and solidarity

The French minister summed up the Franco-German perspective, which is based on the idea of 'responsibility and solidarity', as follows: "Yes to solidarity on relocation and re-admission. Yes to taking responsibility, by setting up hotspots under EU supervision, and via a system of organising the return of those who are illegal economic migrants." According to Asselborn, these principles prevailed during discussions in Council.

par Loreline Merelle

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