EU ministers seek long-stalled migration deal

FILE PHOTO: A member of the Red Cross assists a migrant after disembarking from a Spanish coast guard vessel, at the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Home affairs ministers from the European Union's 27 member states gathered on Thursday to try get across the line an elusive agreement on how to share out the responsibility of caring for refugees and migrants.

A tentative deal on the table comes after years of damaging feuds between EU states since their cooperation collapsed in acrimony in 2015 as more than a million people - mostly fleeing the war in Syria - arrived across the Mediterranean.