” ““Finding common answers” and “strengthening cooperation about asylum with a view to establishing a perfectly-harmonised European system”. Commissioner Franco Frattini, in charge of Barroso’s executive for justice, freedom and security, submitted a “release” in Brussels today aiming at “specifying the workplan for factual cooperation among the member states in this delicate area”. According to Frattini, it is “essential that the authorities in charge of asylum in the EU member states have a range of common tools to fulfil their daily and operational needs”. “With the aid of these tools, the member states can share information, improve the quality of procedures and together find solutions for such emergencies as the arrival of masses of asylum-seekers”. According to the commissioner, “the EU population of the most affected countries can now see how the concept of solidarity among the EU member states actually works”. The basic points of the action of the 25 member states in this respect had been set forth by the Hague plan, which encloses EU provisions about justice and internal affairs until 2010; the “release” launched today “falls within this framework”.
