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EU member states remain at odds over a unified migration policy, but there is some progress | Photo: picture-alliance
  • Malta
  • Spain
  • Italy

Countries on EU's southern borders demand more help from EU pact on migration

Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain say that the new migration pact – as proposed by the European Commission – fails to do enough to systemically redistribute new migrants arriving in the southern EU member states. The four Mediterranean countries expressed their demands in a discussion paper seen by the German news agency dpa.

A German police officer wearing a Frontex armband
  • Slovakia
  • Poland
  • Hungary

Visegrad countries urge stronger EU border defense

Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have called for the EU's border management agency to be strengthened. The Visegrad Group has pushed for tough policies on irregular migration to the EU.