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10 years ago - The Times Friday, September 26, 2008 EU migration pact – Malta gets its way The concept of burden-sharing in the case of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers has been entrenched in the new European Union pact on migration which, if approveWhat happened on... September 26
10 years ago - The Times Friday, September 26, 2008 EU migration pact – Malta gets its way The concept of burden-sharing in the case of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers has been entrenched in the new European Union pact on migration which, if approved by the EU leaders next month, will set the EU policy in this sector for the years to come. EU justice ministers yesterday accepted Malta’s insistence to include burden-sharing as part and parcel of the EU pact and reached a final political agreement that now technically only needs the endorsement of the European Council next month. Over the past weeks Malta had been insisting on the need to include a commitment towards burden-sharing with its counterparts, who at first resisted the idea. However, following pressure at EU Permanent Representatives level and discussions between Malta’s Justice Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici and European Commissioner Jacques Barrot, the last resisting member states lifted their objections. “We have managed to reach our target,” an upbeat Dr Mifsud Bonnici told The Times soon after the Council meeting in Brussels. “We were already very positive that the French presidency was pushing forward this... Read more