COPENHAGEN: 15 EU states have referred to as for additional tightening of the bloc’s asylum coverage to make it simpler to take undocumented migrants to 3rd international locations, together with when they’re rescued at sea.
The demand, made in a letter to the European Fee obtained by AFP on Thursday, comes lower than a month earlier than European Parliament elections during which far-right anti-immigration events are predicted to make positive factors.
The letter asks the chief arm of the European Union to “suggest new methods and options to stop unlawful migration to Europe”.
The group consists of Italy and Greece, which in line with the Worldwide Group for Migration obtain vital numbers of people that make the perilous journey throughout the Mediterranean to achieve the EU – many attempting to flee poverty, warfare or persecution.
They need the EU to tighten its just lately adopted asylum pact, which introduces stricter checks on those that wish to enter the 27 international locations.
15 urged of their letter the introduction of “mechanisms… geared toward detecting, detaining – or in case of emergency – rescuing – migrants on the excessive seas and bringing them to a predetermined protected place in a companion nation outdoors the EU.
