European Union leaders support the idea of having reception centres to screen asylum seekers.
These asylum seekers or migrants use North Africa and the Balkans as access routes to Europe.
The reception centres to be established in these entry points will help handle the migration crisis.
The EU leaders on Sunday held emergency talks in Brussels to find a better way of handling the number of migrants seeking to enter Europe.
Why the need for reception centres?
The reception centres idea became essential after Italy refused to allow a ship carrying migrants to dock in its waters this month.
The ship with 629 migrants aboard was turned away by Italy and Malta who refused it entry into their ports.
Spain eventually accepted to have the ship dock in its waters.
Many of the minors are aged between 13 and 17 and they come from Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria and Sudan.
Importance of the screening centres
The EU says it is ready to give allow for the setting up of screening centres in Algeria and Egypt.
Other centres will be put up in Libya, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia.
French President Emmanuel Macron says “the method that we are going to adopt” would involve “working together vis a vis the countries of transit and origin outside the European Union.”
Macron says the migration crisis is “a political crisis that Europe and the European Union is mostly living today”.
Source: Africafeeds.com
