Crisis in the Mediterranean must provoke new thinking and new pan European response to asylum issues in Europe
1st May 2015 - Fine Gael Press Office
Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, Fine Gael Dublin MEP, Brian Hayes said new information from the EU highlights that we in Ireland need to do more in offering refuge to those seeking asylum. Part of that must be to look again at a binding quota system in light of the disaster in the Mediterranean.
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