Photo: ReutersEuropean Union interior ministers were at odds on Friday over how to handle immigration, with heated discussions between states who want more burden sharing and those who oppose any kind of obligatory relocation. "We cannot pretend that the quotas as we know them now are working," said Robert Kalinak of Slovakia. "We should never leave the frontline member states in coping with this very, very complex situation," the bloc's migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said. "Solidarity in all the languages of the EU has the same meaning." Brussels wants to set up an EU Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) - akin to the US ESTA - and make visitors from outside the EU who have the right to travel to the bloc without a visa pay 5 euros for an online pre-approval.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 18, 2016 20:41 UTC