EU leaders reach agreement on migrant crisis

Brussels, 29 June (AP ): EU leaders on Friday announced a landmark deal on how to deal with migratory pressures after the talks helped meet the demands of the Italians.

European leaders said the agreement would strengthen the EU's external borders. The plan proposes to subject migrants from North Africa to control of admissibility to asylum and to create control centers within the bloc by nations who would volunteer to have them.

Beyond Italy's demands, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also faced intense domestic pressure to find a breakthrough to avert a government crisis at home.

"We have a European solution and a job of coo French President Emmanuel Macron said:

For several years, the EU countries have been trying to stem the tide of those who make the perilous journey on the mainland by sea, as part of a desperate attempt to "We are not an island, Europe will have to live for a long time with such migratory pressures from countries in crisis, poor countries" , said Macron, 19659003] No North African country is yet in agreement to join the plan, although the eventual funding of the EU likely to bring Billion of aid can be convincing.

Italy has long suspended any interim agreement at the top country would receive help to handle the waves of newcomers coming from the country. on the other side of the Mediterranean

"Italy no longer needs verbal signs, but de facto s, "said Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Many EU agreements have allowed Friday's agreement not to be decisive in solving the problem, but it has created enough platform on which to build.

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the director of migration and border surveillance from Morocco, Khalid Zerouali, told the Associated Press that the kingdom was not interested. "

Migrants sometimes use Morocco as a starting point to reach Spain, which has saw a wave of migrants cross the sea this year.Zerouali said that some 25,000 people have been arrested so far this year.

The International Organization for Migration estimates that some 80,000 people will enter Europe by sea this year, according to current trends. It's about half less than in 2017.

Yet anti-migrant parties have made significant political gains, most recently in Italy, which, along with Greece and Spain, are among the favorite destinations of Africans in search of better living conditions. Merkel, for her part, is fighting a battle here and abroad against critics who accuse her of endangering European security with her hospitality. Its conservative coalition is under pressure from the Far Right Alternative for Germany

The party has seen an increase in its support since 2015, when more than one million people entered Europe, mainly in Syria and Iraq. Populist leaders in southern and eastern Europe have rejected Merkel's calls for an in-depth reform of the European migration system.

But Mrs Merkel is deeply aware of the threat this issue poses to Europe, especially in her Schengen area. "Europe has many challenges, but that of migration could determine the fate of the European Union," Merkel told German lawmakers Thursday before heading to the summit.

The partner in Merkel's coalition government demands that migrants be returned to Germany's border with Austria. EU officials fear that this will trigger a domino effect, which would cause Austria to close its border with Italy and Italy to completely close its ports to rescued migrants in Wed.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz hoped that the summit "Being saved in the Mediterranean should not automatically become a ticket to Central Europe," said Kurz, another supporter of the African Migrant Screening Project North.

Brussels wants the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Refugee Agency to oversee the Africa plan, but they prefer to provide a safe haven for migrants within the EU.