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With regard to the Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union has committed itself to “bringing the positions of the Member States closer together” by the end of the present six-month period.
The Portuguese Minister for Home Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, who chaired the informal videoconference of Home Affairs Ministers yesterday, reports that there is “progress” in the negotiation between the 27, emphasising the commitment of the Portuguese Presidency and the European Commission to finding a “balance between responsibility and solidarity” in the external aspect of migration and the relationship with third countries.
Eduardo Cabrita added that the Member States have made advances “on the technical level” in many of the dossiers that make up this agenda, for example, the regulation on the European Asylum Support Office, and that they are “very close to an overall agreement on the new asylum regulations”. Debate on the
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A group of families who crossed the Mediterranean in search of asylum have been relocated to Germany, the Home Affairs Ministry said on Friday.
The ministry said the migrant families, mainly women and children, were relocated through a process coordinated with the European Commission and in line with a pledge by various member states to relocate migrants who landed in Malta.
People relocated will now have their asylum claims processed in Germany.
The Home Affairs Ministry did not say how many people were relocated, where the families originated from or when they had first reached Malta.
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Cyprus said Turkey has created a new refugee route to Europe via the north of the island by failing to uphold migration deals, the Greek City Times reported.