Following a "shocking" visit made by a number of MEPs to local detention centres, Italian Stefano Zappala intends to propose that immigrants who arrive in Malta be transferred elsewhere in Europe, The Sunday Times revealed.
Moreover, French MEP Martine Roure said that the Members of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs would try to ensure that Malta benefited from derogation in relation to Dublin II regulation. This would allow refugees who come to Malta and then move on to the continent to not necessarily have their refugee application processed in Malta.
The Sunday Times reported Dr Tonio Borg as saying that the visit served to highlight the fact that Malta could not go it alone, while he hoped that it also served to highlight the problem and to put pressure on European institutions to help Malta.
The visit to the illegal immigrants’ detention centres on Friday sparked various remarks on behalf of the MEPs who were on the first of a series of visits they are aiming to make in Malta, Lampedusa, Libya and North Africa, which comments will surely feature in the report that will be drawn up shortly.
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MEPs appalled by Immigrants’ ‘living’ conditions
By Sylvana Zammit - Mar 25, 2006, 09:57 CET
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