The European Commission announced yesterday a new plan consists of 17 items to face the flow of refugees to Europe. The agreement was announced after a mini-summit in Brussels included countries of the European Union and a number of Balkan countries the day before yesterday.
According to media sources, the main points which are set out in the plan concentrated on improving the daily exchange of information including mobility through the Western Balkans route, preventing the movement of refugees from another country without informing the second country, and improving the reception conditions of migrants especially by increasing the capacity to 100,000 immigrants in Greece (50,000 currently) and in the Western Balkans (50,000).
The agreement also included strengthening the efforts to facilitate the return of immigrants who are not in need for international protection, as well as enhancing the cooperation for the return of deported immigrants to third countries, and intensifying cooperation with Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In addition, combating smuggling and trafficking of human beings by the help of Front ex Interpol, and European police.
 It was also agreed on enhancing the cooperation between the international and financial institutions to support the financial efforts of the concerned countries, in addition, meeting the flow of migrants by insuring full capacity to register them through maximum use of biometric data in cooperation with the European agencies to exchange information.
The European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said in a press conference: “We made clear the policy of just passing people” referring to the cooperation agreements and avoiding individual national actions that contributed in the chaos across the region.