Merkel and Hollande call for “unified asylum system” and “fair sharing” of refugeesAt a joint press conference in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande called for a “unified asylum system” and a “fair sharing” of refugees across the EU – although they stopped short of endorsing the binding quota system proposed by the European Commission. The two leaders urged Italy and Greece to speed up the creation of “reception centres” to identify migrants arriving from outside the EU and separate those entitled to asylum from illegal ‘economic’ migrants. Merkel and Hollande also proposed that EU …read more
Source: Open Europe
