The draft of the conclusions of the EU Council at the end of June speaks of secondary movements of migrants. It refers to the movements of asylum seekers between the various EU states that "would seriously endanger the integrity of the asylum system". The draft of the document cites the summary of the problem in two lines. Member States should take all internal legislative and administrative measures necessary to block these movements and cooperate more closely with each other for this purpose ”. The issue of secondary movements is putting the Angela Merkel-led government in Germany in difficulty, where the Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, threatens to apply push-backs to the border of migrants who have already requested asylum in the country of first entry.
In view of the EU Council meeting at the end of June, President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel met at the traditional German-German summit every year.
The press conference of the two leaders gave some interesting indications to the major problems, often endemic to the European Union.
President Macron asked for a "European response" to "the migration challenge" at a time when a unanimous position is lacking among the countries of the Union. Merkel has increased the dose by saying that Europe must "have more capacity" to monitor its external borders and to exploit the "mechanisms of solidarity outside as well as within the borders themselves".
The French president spoke and then convinced the German chancellor on the project concerning the European intervention initiative (Iei). Iei is "a non-inclusive approach of close cooperation of some capable and willing countries". The aim is to make several countries with adequate military capability work together. In this project, Paris and Berlin are mainly interested in London.
Angela Merkel then spoke about a common eurozone budget to better protect herself from crises. “We are committed to a euro budget, reiterates Macron, who has long supported the establishment of a common budget, intended as an instrument of solidarity and stability for the nineteen euro area states. This budget could have its first effects as early as 2021.
As for migrants The French president, Emmanuel Macron, calls for "solidarity inside and outside the borders" to respond to the challenge of migrants. And relaunches: "We are not an island planted in the middle of nowhere". In Europe we need "more sovereignty, more compactness and more coordination". Macron then cited “a European intervention initiative to be able to coordinate better.
Both Macron and Merkel have jointly supported the Italian assessments, presented by Prime Minister Giusepper Conte in the meetings held in recent days. “We therefore support the European Commission's plan to strengthen Frontex, and we want to take action against secondary immigration. We need a harmonization of the rules on the right to asylum ”.
“We see migration as a common challenge” and “our goal remains a European response. We want to prevent Europe from dividing.