Refugee camps may be set up outside EU borders to process asylum seekers

SUPPORT is mounting for a British proposal to set up refugee camps outside European Union borders to process asylum seekers before they are allowed to enter.

Under the plan, a series of transit camps would be established in countries bordering the EU. Anybody seeking asylum in the Union would be detained in the camps while their claims were under investigation.

Those successful in seeking asylum would then continue on to whatever EU country they were destined for. Others would be returned home.