EU leaders to hold emergency meeting on Mediterranean migrant crisisEU leaders will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the on-going migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, following a joint meeting of EU foreign and interior ministers yesterday, EU member states have decided to increase funding for EU border agency Frontex and to expand the scope of pan-EU search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. EU ministers have also agreed to consider voluntary burden-sharing projects for the resettlement of refugees within the EU. The European Commission has also come up with a set of ten proposals, including plans to …read more
Source: Open Europe