Situation in the Mediterranean and need for a holistic EU approach to migration

Summary:

The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs put forward a non-legislative resolution on how the European Union's common asylum system has been coping with the migration crisis hitting the European territory since 2015. The plenary session discussed the report on 12 April 2016.

Summary:

The resolution acknowledges the failure of the EU asylum system to cope with rising numbers of migrant arrivals and call for a radical overhaul of the so-called Dublin system. It proposes establishing a central system for collecting and allocating asylum applications. The scheme, which could include a quota for each EU member state, would work on the basis of 'hotspots' from which refugees would be distributed.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Press Release, 12.04.16: Parliament advocates a centralised EU asylum system and legal ways to migrate http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20160407IPR21773/

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