European Ministers Agree on Enforcement and Criminal Action on Illegal

On February 16, 1993, Interior Ministers from 35 European countries agreed to take criminal and related enforcement action against the mounting problem of illegal immigration from east to west. Although the agreement was significant because of the cooperative efforts on which so many diverse governments agreed, there remain many disagreements and political tensions while the flow of uprooted migrants in the former Yugoslavia and other areas where ethnic strive and poverty rule is likely to continue unabated at least until the end of the decade…[more]