EU proposal on migrants condemned

EU leaders are planning to agree a system of detaining migrants, forcibly returning them and destroying vessels to deter them crossing the Mediterranean. 

The plans, due to be signed off at the summit in Brussels tomorrow, have been denounced by Mèdecins Sans Frontières as “orchestrating a humanitarian crisis”.

Part of the original plan in response to 1,300 deaths in the Mediterranean this year was to have member states take 40,000 Syrians and Eritreans from camps in Italy and Greece over two years and take 20,000 from UN camps who have been displaced or fled war.