Agreement on migration pact 'possible' says Johansson

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 6 - European Internal Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Tuesday European Union member states are taking a constructive approach to discussions on the new draft Pact on Migration and Asylum and that agreement is possible.
    "I believe it is possible to reach an agreement on the new Migration Pact, the member states seem to have a constructive approach, this is the right moment," said Johansson, speaking ahead of the meeting of interior ministers at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels on June 8-9.
    "If we agree on a common approach to migration we will all be winners, including migrants, because no country can go it alone," she added, saying that "national debates instead try to paint a winners and losers scenario".
    The commissioner said she considers the draft pact to ensure greater solidarity and responsibility sharing among member states, which in a new draft would require countries that refuse to accept the redistribution of migrants and asylum seekers under a quota system to pay 22,000 euros for every person not accepted, to be "balanced", even if there are "still things that need to be perfected". (ANSA).