Ian Traynor in Brussels
The European commission is planning to establish immigrant-processing centres outside the EU for the first time, in a radical policy departure aimed at stemming the movement of hundreds of thousands of people across the Mediterranean.
Struggling to draft coherent immigration strategies at a time when the issue has become one of the most toxic in the politics of many EU countries, the European commission announced it was fast-tracking a policy paper on migration.
Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/european-commission-third-country-immigrant-processing-centres