Spain calls for EU summit on immigration

Helsinki - Spain will organise a meeting of European Union member states bordering the Mediterranean to discuss ways of tightening their maritime borders after a wave of illegal immigration, the Spanish government said on Tuesday.

“We are going to call an urgent meeting of European countries bordering the Mediterranean to seek agreement on maritime border controls to halt illegal immigration from Africa,” Spain’s First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told reporters during a visit to Helsinki.

The countries to be invited, in addition to Spain, are France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia. The Finnish presidency of the EU and the EU Commission will also attend.

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Spain calls for EU summit on immigration
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