France, Germany, Italy, and Spain are pressing the European Commission to support a "search and rescue solidarity mechanism".
The demand seeks to feed into the commission's planned relaunch of a failed common European asylum system sometime before the summer.
Interior ministers from each of the four states bullet pointed their ideas in a two-page joint letter, seen by this website, and sent to the European Commission earlier this month.
The letter does not elaborate on the m...
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