The first meeting of Home Affairs Ministers under the Portuguese Presidency will take place on 28 January and one of the topics under discussion will be migration. For that reason, and following the bilateral meetings which have been led by the Minister for Home Affairs in the first weeks of January, the 20th was the day of meeting virtually with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson.
The meeting focused on 3 themes: the external dimension of migration policies, external border control and the balance between the principles of responsibility and solidarity in responding to the hosting of migrants and refugees.