Historic Deal Reached To Share The Burden Of Migration Across The Entire EU

 

The EU reached a historic agreement on Wednesday paves the way for establishing common rules to manage an unexpected mass arrival of asylum seekers. 

“Now we can move on with the negotiations,” Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said. “It is important to get the pact in place, to ensure order at the EU’s external borders and reduce flows.”

The pact is expected to help avoid a repeat of 2015 when 1 million refugees entered the EU from Syria and beyond, leading to some countries accepting far more people than others.

“It is a common step forward that solidarity between member states is mandatory in the event of a crisis,” wrote Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, on X, formerly Twitter.

It is understood more than 250,000 people have arrived in the EU this year through irregular migration, about half of them in Italy.

EU leaders have gone out of their way to ensure the rest of the bloc shows solidarity with Rome. The new deal is expected to share the burden of migration across the entire EU.