Prospect of French ‚anti-Roma‘ summit disturbs EU presidency
Belgium, which currently holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, may reject France’s invitation to a ministerial meeting for fear that Paris wants to use the event to legitimise its policy of rounding up and expelling Roma.“If it begins to be apparent that the meeting is only a meeting on the Roma and for France with their policy to give the impression that other EU countries approve of what they are doing, Belgium will not be keen to attend,“ an EU diplomatic source told EUobserver. Print Comment articleFrance’s immigration minister, Eric Besson, has invited his counterparts from four of the EU’s other „Big Six“ major economies – Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK – to an informal meeting on immigration in Paris on 6 September. (more on euobserver.com).
