There's a EU meeting today, of Interior Ministers from the member states. So the chief topic? Well....migration, and have one standard EU policy on immigration and asylum.
ARD (German public TV, Channel One) covered the basic story and gives a decent view of the discussion.
So what the German Interior Minister (Seehofer, CSU) will suggest?
His idea is that you'd go and create asylum centers (he's not clear about who would pay for this but one would assume the EU financially covers the bills). These would be in the external regions (Greece, Malta, Spain, etc).
Once the migrant arrived, an entitlement examination would occur. If you met the conditions (which he hasn't said how this would be rigged), then you'd get an entry visa. He's careful not to say you'd get a guaranteed visa to your 'dream' country. One might suspect that some shuffle would occur, and if you passed, then you'd get a visa to a 'surprise' location.
But as part of this discussion, he's also saying that if you failed the examination, you'd go back to your point of origin.
The pro-asylum folks? Well, I'm guessing here that this won't sell very easily to them. The migrants themselves? They have assimilated the data on European countries and know that x-number have great benefits, and x-number have marginal benefits. So if you said they passed the exam got a visa, but it's to Portugal....they'd shake their head and say no....it has to be Germany.
The likely outcome of this meeting? Just a lot of speeches and ideas tossed around, and no real outcome.
They do agree, whatever is eventually done....has to be a EU solution. But getting to that...is almost impossible.
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