BRUSSELS -
"Great progress at the EU Council of Interior Ministers on the Asylum and Migration Pact:
large majority support for two regulations to strengthen EU border protection and for a solidarity mechanism".
The
European Commissioner Ylva Johansson
announces it on twitter
stressing that it will serve to "help Member States under severe pressure".
"In the coming days, the French presidency of the EU and the European Commission - he adds - will organize a meeting of the solidarity platform to give concrete expression to this historic agreement".
"In the next few days, the French Presidency and the Commission will organize a meeting of the 'solidarity platform' created at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron to give concrete expression to this historic pact", says on twitter the French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announcing his majority support in the Interior Council in Luxembourg on the EU solidarity mechanism on migrants turns.
"With my European counterparts, we are starting our work around the first phase of the migration pact that we proposed in Lille last February".