The European Green Party has approved a resolution proposing that the Dublin III regulations are abolished enabling EU states to process claims for asylum regardless of where the asylum seeker would have entered the union.

Alternattiva Demokratika, which forms part of the party, said in a statement that the resolutions addressed Malta’s irregular migration problems.

The resolution also called on the EU to make the common asylum system a reality, for greater solidarity to be shown with EU member states on the eastern and southern borders of the Mediterranean and for the EU to approve, as a matter of priority, further possibilities of creating legal access to the EU, through visas issued in countries outside the EU.

Prof. Cassola said that the Green proposals for the removal of the Dublin regulations would give the possibility for migrants landing in Malta to transfer to other EU countries while their asylum application was being examined.

“We are glad to see that even Martin Schultz has now taken up this green proposal. What we need now is a declaration written jointly by the 10 EU socialist Prime Ministers on the one hand and the 14 PPE Prime Ministers on the other, solemnly declaring that they will abolish the Dublin regulations, as the Greens have been proposing for years," he said.