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The Slovenian Presidency recently proposed accelerating negotiations on plans to expand the Eurodac database that would transform it into a "multi-purpose" system for capturing the data of asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants. However, a document setting out the views of a number of member states suggests there is not much enthusiasm for the idea.
Not content with working to improve gender equal representation, helping devise a European migration policy and tackling the growing threat to media f...
One year on from the adoption of the proposal for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum, the Commission is today presenting a Report on Migration and Asylum. Today’s report takes stock of progress achieved and key developments in migration and asylum policy over the past year and a half, identifies the key challenges, and […]
Greek foreign ministry expresses full solidarity and support to Spain Search for: Greece expresses its full solidarity and support to Spain, which has been facing massive arrivals of migrants from third countries over the last days, as a frontline country in dealing with migration and refugees, a foreign ministry announcement said. “As the Greek side has repeatedly stressed, the external borders of the EU member-states are European borders,” the announcement said. “Dealing with the migrant-refugee issue is not a challenge only for the frontline countries,” the statement continued, add...
Migration, achieving solidarity among EU member states and addressing the situation in African countries will be among the topmost priorities of the French presidency in the first half of next year, according to Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. He told Times of Malta following a meeting with Maltese counterpart Evarist Bartolo that France was determined to continue trying to convince other EU member states that migration was a European issue that had to be tackled collectively. He said there were negotiations on the European Commission’s proposed Asylum and Migration Pact but insiste...