A document approved on Monday at the Ministerial meeting says that the naval force used by the EU to guard the borders (two German ships, one Italian and one British) will be increased and will be able to board suspicious ships in the Mediterranean.
However, such an operation should have the go ahead of the UN Security Council, while the media recall that the majority of immigrants come from Libya, attacked in 2011 by several countries of the EU and the United States.
The ministerial meeting also lacks consensus for the moment being for an agreement of distribution of some 160 thousand refugees who arrived in Europe during the last months, amidst the rejection to obligatory quotas on the part of several states of the bloc.
Some 350 thousand immigrants risked their lives to sail the Mediterranean to arrive to European coasts and some three thousands died in the attempt, while the flow of refugees increases through the so-called Balcanic way (Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany).
Austria reinstated the border controls, after receiving 16,600 undocumented immigrants only last weekend and after knowing of the direct delivery and without register by train to that country, of refugees who arrived to Hungary from Serbia.
Magyar authorities received on Sunday a record figure for one day of over five thousand refugees and for Monday they expected crossing of 25 thousand coming from Serbia, the day before the enactment of a law criminalizing immigration.
Budapest is ready to impose sentences of up to three years in jail for the crime of illegal border-crossing and accelerates work to finish a fence four meters high with barbed wire in its upper part and extending 175 kilometers-long.
The great majority of refugees come from countries in conflict like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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