“I believe it is possible to reach an agreement on the new Migration Pact, the member states seem to have a constructive approach, this is the right moment,” Johansson said, speaking ahead of the meeting of interior ministers at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels on June 8-9.
“If we agree on a common approach to migration we will all be winners, including migrants, because no country can go it alone,” she added, saying that “national debates instead try to paint a winners and losers scenario”.
The commissioner said she considers the draft pact to ensure greater solidarity and responsibility sharing among member states, which in a new draft would require countries that refuse to accept the redistribution of migrants and asylum seekers under a quota system to pay €22,000 for every person not accepted, to be “balanced”, even if there are “still things that need to be perfected”.
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