Joint Foreign and Home Affairs Council: Ten point action plan on migration

At a hastily arranged joint meeting of EU Foreign and Interior Ministers, chaired by High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini and held in Luxembourg on the 20 April 2015, the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos presented a 10 point plan of the immediate actions to be taken in response to the crisis situation in the Mediterranean. The plan received the full backing of Foreign and Interior Ministers.

European Council President Donald Tusk announced that he had convened an extraordinary European Council summit meeting on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, to be held on 23 April 2015.

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