Interior ministers of five EU countries have agreed to a new temporary system for the distribution of illegal immigrants.
Interior ministers of Malta, Italy, Germany, France, and Finland, have concluded to a temporary mechanism for managing migrants rescued from the Mediterranean, according to AKI News Agency.
The new agreement provides for the distribution of migrants to member states within a period not exceeding four weeks, from the date of their landing on the Maltese or Italian shores, according to the same source.
The agreement, reached in Malta, is still tentative. It needs to be endorsed at a full meeting of the EU’s interior and justice ministers on October 8.
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