Improve EU pact to avoid more Lampedusas - Austria

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 28 - On migration crisis management a "better solution" is needed at European Union (EU) level involving "clear rules at external borders so as to avoid images like those of Lampedusa", Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Thursday.
    "We have seen the images of Lampedusa and how great the migratory pressure on Europe is," said Karner, arriving at the EU Home Affairs Council in Brussels.
    "We have to work hard and intensely" on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, "take further steps and bring it to life," he continued.
    "This is what we are fighting with today," said Karner, calling for measures to "make the EU's external borders more secure".
    Photo: Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (L) and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (R) before the Home Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday. (ANSA).