A High Level Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean-Western Balkans route will take place in Luxembourg on 8 October with the aim of enhancing engagement among relevant partners in order to increase solidarity with those who are bearing the brunt of refugee flows from Syria and to ensure an orderly management of refugee and migration flows along this route. The conference will bring together the Ministers responsible for Foreign and for Home Affairs/Migration from the EU with counterparts from the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, non-EU Schengen Associated countries as well as representatives of relevant EU and UN agencies among others.
The meeting will be chaired by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini and Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council. The Commission will also be represented by three Commissioners: Johannes Hahn for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations; Dimitris Avramopoulos for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship; Christos Stylianides for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management.
