French Green Senator Ango Ela Kalliopi has stated that the “increasing migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean demand that Europe truly implements policies for the prevention of such deaths by developing measures of legal migration and by issuing temporary humanitarian visas in order to afford the necessary protection to such vulnerable people.”

She added, “Moreover, we French, Maltese and European greens demand that asylum seekers should be offered the possibility of mobility within the EU countries through the drastic revision of the present Dublin convention rules.”

Alternattiva Demokratika Chairperson, Prof. Arnold Cassola, said, “We European Greens are presenting a united front in our demand to overhaul the Dublin rules in such a way as to allow asylum seekers free movement in the EU once an application for asylum has been made on Maltese territory. Asylum seekers and the normal citizens are to be treated with dignity and respect.”

“Free movement in the EU should be made available to all law abiding people, independent of their economic means. The concept established by the Maltese government whereby only millionaires have talent, are individuals of high calibre and are of high value is absolute rubbish.” Prof. Cassola concluded.

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