Drum rolls and great excitement in Brussels.
The European Commission presents this Wednesday, at midday, the pact for migration and asylum.
First announced for February, it had been postponed several times.
The fires in Lesbos, a symbol of the EU's failure, convinced the Commission and Berlin that it was urgent to move forward.
Even if the overall number of irregular arrivals is out of all proportion to the peaks of 2015 (139,000 last year compared to more than a million five years ago), the subject indeed remains unresolved for the countries of first arrivals ( Italy, Greece and Malta in the lead) and a source of great tension between Member States.
“With this pact, Ursula von der Leyen will try to give new impetus when the Juncker Commission was exhausted on these issues.
If we fail this time, it will be years before we can return to the subject, ”
warns a diplomat.
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