Brussels plans migration centres outside EU to process asylum applications

 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