France calls for fairer asylum seeker distribution within EU
NICE, France (Reuters) - The European Union needs a system of border controls and a way for asylum seekers to be more fairly distributed among EU member states, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Saturday.
Nearly 1,000 migrants, many coming from Africa via Italy, were intercepted in southern France near the Italian border in the past three days, officials said at the weekend.
In response, border police forces and controls on highways, trains and buses and various check points have been beefed up, Valls said as he visited Menton, a Riviera town only a few kilometers from the Italian border.
"We need to create a European system of border controls," Valls said, adding that France was making concrete proposals to Brussels on the matter.
"Asylum seekers need to be distributed among EU states more fairly," he said ...
Posts
