EU immigration pact just clever marketing?

Világgazdaság business newspaper reflects on the immigration policy package launched by the French EU Council presidency: "The 'immigration pact' was ... a flagship of the ... EU Council presidency. ... [It] consists ... of five major sub-areas: the curbing of illegal immigration, the employment of legal immigrants, cooperation with the countries of origin, the harmonisation of refugee policy and the intensification of surveillance on the EU's outer borders. Paris has neither presented new regulations nor promoted the setting up of a ... border patrol. Nor has it made any arrangements for setting up financial aid for the countries where the immigrants come from. France has simply tied up several already existing projects into one package: ... At the same time one should note that the 'success of the French EU council presidency' is based on clever marketing rather than the result of genuine effort."

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