Britain urges European Union to speed up migrant deportation

Later, interior ministers were joined by foreign ministers from the European Union, Balkan states, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon to review broader efforts to stem the flow of refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East, through Greece and the Balkans.

Bild quoted him saying Thursday that “this explicitly also includes self-defense measures to restrict immigration, such as turning people back at the border with Austria and immediately sending asylum seekers elsewhere in Germany”.

“We need to crack down on people abusing our asylum system”, British Home Secretary Theresa May said as she arrived at the talks.

To date, European Union countries deport less than 40 percent of the migrants staying illegally in their territories, EU Commission data shows.

Just four in 10 migrants deemed to have no right to refuge in Europe are deported according to official figures – something Britain thinks is acting as a pull factor.

On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande urged European Union members to act collectively to attack the crisis that was migrant.

“Translated, this means ministers will call to apply a principle of “more for more and less for less”, a European diplomat said.

Grabar-Kitarovic said the migrant crisis had “cast a shadow” on the rapport between Hungary and Croatia, but she agreed with Ader that this should not ruin their traditionally strong relations.

European governments and EU institutions have been scrambling for a coherent response to this unprecedented influx of people, a few closing their borders then reopening them, Hungary erecting border fences and Germany briefly opening its doors to all Syrian refugees.

Migrants queue outside German Social Welfare Office in Berlin. He says the government hopes to speed up management of the crisis.

“But… we can only offer space and support to refugees in need of protection if those who don’t need protection don’t come or are quickly returned”.

Tomorrow the first planeload of people to take part in the EU’s relocation scheme leaves from Rome for Sweden.

The EU interior ministers also called for more effective re-admission deals with countries of origin outside the EU, so that more refugees go home, it was revealed at the end of talks of the Council of the EU held earlier today.

The ongoing surge of refugees into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-ravaged countries presents a striking demographic contrast: hundreds of thousands of predominantly young people trying to get into a region where the population is older than in nearly any other place on earth.

It says migrants “should be treated with humanity and dignity”.

On Wednesday, EU-run naval patrols off the Libyan coast formally adopted new rules of engagement meant to let them attack people-smuggling operations.