Press Release: First meeting of the Commission’s Task Force on Migration produces a comprehensive overview of European activities to address immigration crises

Migration is a cross-border issue that requires a comprehensive, balanced and integrated approach involving various policy areas and all the affected regions (origin, transit and destination). The European Commission is working along such an approach for a few years now and has reinforced its efforts for coherence by deciding, on 30 August 2006, to establish a Commissioners' Task Force on Migration, under the coordination of Vice President Franco Frattini. This temporary Task Force brings together all EU Commissioners with relevant responsibilities as regards migration, including Louis Michel (Development and Humanitarian Aid), Benita Ferrero-Waldner (External Relations), Vladimir Spidla (Employment), Ján Figel (Education and training), Danuta Hübner (Regional policy), Joaquin Almunia (Economic and monetary issues) and Markos Kyprianou (Health and consumer protection).