EU – asylum and migration rules
EU countries have agreed on a revision of asylum and migration rules, the Spanish EU Presidency announced Wednesday. The agreement was reached at a meeting of member states’ ambassadors in Brussels. This opens the way for the EU possibly to have a common asylum and migration pact in place before the European elections next year. The rules must now be negotiated with the European Parliament before the agreement is finally in place. “Today we have taken a major step forward in an area that is crucial for the future of the European Union,” Spain’s acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez said in a statement. “With today’s agreement, we are now in a better position to reach an agreement on the entire asylum and migration pact with the European Parliament by the end of this semester,” he said./ritzau/