EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union - with some eight million undocumented migrants on its soil, but short of high-skilled migrants - is set to give a new boost to its ambition to establish common immigration and asylum policy. However, organisations active in the area have expressed "strong reservations", claiming that the security approach is getting the upper hand. Brussels officials estimate that some eight million undocumented migrants are currently in the EU At this week's top-level summit in Brussels (15-16 October), EU leaders are expected to formally back the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, a set of political commitments in five areas - regular and irregular immigration, border controls, asylum policies and co-operation with countries of origin and of transit. The pact states that the 27-nation bloc "does not have the resources to decently receive all the migrants hoping to find a better life" within its territory.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union - with some eight million undocumented migrants on its soil, but short of high-skilled migrants - is set to give a new boost to its ambition to establish common immigration and asylum policy.
However, organisations active in the area have expressed "strong reservations", claiming that the security approach is getting the upper hand.
Brussels officials estimate that some eight million undocumented migrants are currently in the EU
At this week's top-level summit in Brussels (15-16 October), EU leaders are expected to formally back the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, a set of political commitments in five areas - regular and irregular immigration, border controls, asylum policies and co-operation with countries of origin and of transit.
The pact states that the 27-nation bloc "does not have the resources to decently receive all the migrants hoping to find a better life" within its territory.
(but we'll protect you if you give us all necessary powers...) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
