Migrants, the EU Commission: "Enough of the Far West, order is needed". France: "Never again an Ocean Viking"

The extraordinary EU Internal Affairs Council in Brussels, with the migrant crisis and the 20-point plan drawn up by the European Commission at the centre.

"The rescue operations of NGOs in the Mediterranean cannot take place in a Far West" - warns the vice-president of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas.

France repeats: no to relocations if Rome closes the ports.

Schinas: "We need order, enough with the Far West"

“We are not improvising here.

International

provides that search and rescue states in an area of ​​international waters have a responsibility under international law to do the necessary.

That is to save people's lives, bring it to port and determine their status.

This is the modus operandi,” said the vice president of the European Commission,

, at the end of the Council.

"We need a cooperation framework," Schinas said.

"We need a dialogue between the Member States concerned and the NGOs. We need commitment. We need an orderly system. And I think this is possible. For us, for me, the NGOs, NGO operations are not a taboo topic is not something that should not be discussed because we are talking about people's lives. And I also think that operations in the Mediterranean and elsewhere cannot work in a Wild Far West situation where everyone does anything and it's okay. We need some order".

Piantedosi's satisfaction: "Shareable methodologies and actions"

"The discussion was mainly focused on the central Mediterranean route but since they are methodologies and actions that can be shared, in a logic of external dimension, a global discussion took place on all the routes that concern the external borders of Europe. I must say that I am very satisfied with this, then we will meet again on December 8", said the Minister of the Interior,

On the EU action plan, "I can say that

has not rejected it. France is now looking for concrete solutions, it wants all member states to assume their responsibilities", said

to the rotating presidency of the EU.

Today, "each State has expressed its position, then we will have to take many steps in the future and we will obtain results there".

France: “The Ocean Viking scenario must not repeat itself”

"We have to get out of a situation in which the same states are called upon to receive ships and carry out relocations from other member states. France will resume its relocations when this is the case", wrote the French minister for

.

"Together with my European colleagues, we have today adopted an emergency action plan proposed by the European Commission so that the

don't repeat.

The management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean is a European problem that requires European solutions", he explained. "It is a question of better preventing irregular departures, creating the conditions for the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean to designate safe ports and improving the effectiveness of return policy of the EU and its member states", added the minister. 

The second point concerns "a better framework for the action of NGOs, specifying the rights and obligations that apply to ships carrying out rescue operations and establishing a framework for cooperation between Mediterranean States and NGOs for greater coordination ", he illustrated again.

Finally, it is a question of "pursuing the adoption of the Asylum and Migration Pact, the only way to implement a truly effective policy for the management of migratory flows on a European scale, while respecting a balance between the necessary solidarity and the indispensable responsibility" Darmanin concluded.

The final document

At the meeting of the extraordinary

Council "ministers underlined the importance of continuing to improve overall contingency planning in individual Member States and at Union level to address the increased flow of refugees to the European Union as a consequence of Russia's illegal, unprovoked and unwarranted war of aggression

, including through sufficient sources of funding".

This is what can be read in the final document of the meeting drawn up by the Czech presidency of the EU Council.

"With about

Ukrainians who have so far received temporary protection in the European Union, the national asylum and reception systems of the Member States are under pressure", the document specifies.

Handle

Planted in Brussels