Britain and European Union

: Interior ministers were hoping to find a way of settling the highly controversial distribution of the 120,000 across Europe during Tuesday meeting, according to The Guardian. Instead, the home secretary said Britain would only take people direct from Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East and emphasised the need for wider European measures to return those people who are illegally economic migrants and who have no right to be here . She made clear that she saw Britain role, at the crunch meeting being held on the eve of a refugee crisis summit of European prime ministers, as being to push for rigorous processing of those who have made it to Europe. Arriving at the extraordinary European Union interior ministers refugee crisis meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, Theresa May confirmed that Britain would not be taking part in a further EU programme to relocate 120,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary. We must ensure that people arriving at Europe borders are being properly dealt with, properly fingerprinted so that decisions can be made and when they are illegal economic migrants, they can be returned, May said. Both Ireland and Denmark, which also have opt-outs, have said they will nevertheless take some of the refugees from within Europe. Britain, which under the Lisbon Treaty can opt out of the EU refugee relocation programme, is the only member state that will not participate in some form or other. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.