Metsola welcome ‘ambitious’ EU migration agenda

Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola welcomed the European Commission’s Agenda for Migration, which she described as “ambitious” and a step in the right direction.

The policy which lays out the Commission’s political direction for the next five years was announced earlier today.  

“The new policy on migration put forward by the European Commission is a good step forward in getting the European Union to fairly share the responsibility on migration, but commitments on paper must now be honoured in practice,” Metsola said.

She added that the policy is an acknowledgment that migration is a European challenge that “requires a European solution in which every Member State must play its part in solidarity.”

The MEP who serves as the EPP’s deputy coordinator on the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, added that the paper is “ambitious and goes beyond just emergency responses, which is very positive. We have called for a fair system of distribution of beneficiaries of international protection, once a certain threshold has been reached, from those Member States under the most pressure and the Commission has recognised that this should happen sooner rather than later."