Reporting from Strasbourg
Is there a fundamental division over the question of migration between the Commission president and the EPP group in Parliament? During the plenary debate, on 29 April in Strasbourg, on the results of the extraordinary EU summit on migration, Jean-Claude Juncker and EPP group leader Manfred Weber (Germany) appeared deeply divided over the issue of legal migration. The Luxembourg national stated that the Union needs to "open the door to keep people from coming in through the…
Legal migration projects for "long and medium term"
"We cannot say that 'we can't take in all the world's poor' – to quote one of your colleagues, a former French Socialist prime minister – and at the same time say that we mustn't deal with legal migration. Legal migration is part of the medium-term solution so it requires action," said the Commission president. He stressed the "urgency" of the situation, but noted that there would not be a "relocation system" in the short term. The question of revision of the Dublin system has been "put on hold" by Avramopoulos.
