BRUSSELS - "There is a need to address the
issue of
secondary movements of migrants
but also to guarantee
effective solidarity with countries in difficulty".
This can be read in a passage that the
president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
sent to European leaders in view of the
summit on immigration
and the economy next week. The president argues that we need to focus on the adoption of the Dublin Roadmap, allowing countries to work better with each other. But also "intensify" support for countries under pressure, using the
voluntary redistribution
mechanism , a harbinger of a "permanent ".
The European Commission will not finance the construction of a
wall between Bulgaria and Turkey
.
"The Commission will not finance walls,"
spokesman Eric Mamer
said during the daily press briefing when asked about it.
"It is up to the Member States to determine what are the best ways to fulfill their border protection obligations. The EU is there to support them in this framework. The Commission finances measures and actions, which contribute to the good protection of its borders, including mobile and fixed infrastructure" but "will not finance the construction of walls".
"The migration dossier cannot be managed on the one hand by the member states and on the other by the European Commission but must be
managed together
and we are happy that the Council has taken the dossier in its hands and will discuss how to bring it on a
common track
: there is always coordination between Member States and the Commission on key dossiers".
This was stated by a Commission spokesman in response to a question posed by a journalist on
Prime Minister Meloni's trip to Libya
and on the one made by Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani in Turkey
.
"If a European leader decides to travel to a partner country it is a
bilateral choice
and in this context the trips of Meloni and Tajani are a
standard procedure
and if they travel they bring the European position: Italy knows what the European position is if it goes to countries like Egypt and Libya," he added.