DECRYPTION – These first ten months of the year, 281,000 irregular entries were detected. European interior ministers are meeting this Friday in Brussels to tackle the issue, against a backdrop of tensions between Paris and Rome around the Ocean Viking ship.
Correspondent in Brussels
Come out on top of the tensions aroundOcean Viking to prevent the meager progress made over the past two years by the 27 on the migration issue from being swept away by this affair. This is the objective of the extraordinary meeting of interior ministers convened this Friday in Brussels at the request of Paris. “If we stick to the incident between France and Italy, we will renationalise and rebilateralise the debate around migration. We have to go beyond it with a European approach,” summarizes an EU diplomat.
While they have still not managed to agree on the pact on migration and asylum presented in September 2020 by the Commission, the Europeans must move forward on this sensitive file that the war in Ukraine had almost eclipsed. After the “respite” observed during the pandemic, migratory pressure has started to rise again.
Three main objectives
In the first ten months of the year, 281,000 irregular entries were…
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