EU May Commit to Limit Migrant Moves Amid German Cabinet Strife
- Bloc’s leaders to issue statement on asylum-seekers at summit
- Governments to take steps to stem refugee movements within EU
Federal police check cars crossing the German-Austrian border on June 18
Photographer: Lennart Preiss/Getty Images
European Union leaders may commit to measures limiting the movement of asylum-seekers between EU member states, a step that could appease rebels in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government who have threatened to take unilateral action turning away migrants at the border.
“Concerning the situation internally in the EU, secondary movements of asylum seekers between Member States put the integrity of the Asylum System severely at risk,” the bloc’s heads of government will say in a joint statement next week, according to a draft of their summit conclusions obtained by Bloomberg. “Member States should take all necessary internal legislative and administrative measures to counter such movements and to closely cooperate amongst each other to this end,” according to the document, dated June 19.