(ANSA) - Brussels, May 20 - The vice president of the
European Commission on Wednesday lashed out against the EC's
proposal for revamping immigration policy saying the new system
fails to provide the humanitarian treatment to survivors of
human trafficking that it was conceived to address.
"We are facing a difficult challenge for the (EU) states;
but I find it unacceptable that Europe is saying it wants to
stop drownings and then says nothing about what to do with
people rescued from the sea, on how to accommodate them," said
Frans Timmermans, speaking at the plenary session in Strasbourg.
An EC spokesperson on Wednesday said the new system of
distributing migrants to be hosted in various EU countries was
designed to facilitate logistics, not create a quota system.
"We are in contact with the French authorities. The
Commission is not proposing a quota system. It offers a means of
temporary relocation for emergency situations, for a specific
group of people in clear need of international protection. Paris
is with us on this," said Natasha Bertaud, a spokesperson for
the EC.
EC vice president lashes out at 'hole' in new immigrant plan
EC spokesperson says not 'quota' but 'relocation' system