As the beginning of a programme to "internally distribute refugees" between European member states, which will soon be promoted by the European Commission, France is about to welcome a hundred or so refugees from the Horn of Africa, who ran aground Maltese coasts and have been granted the status of refugees or another type of protection. The European Commission is indeed preoccupied with the development of an intra-European solidarity with the countries at the southern borders of the EU as they are exposed to high migratory pressure. Apart from the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland, other European member states little contributed to programmes for the settling of refugees so far. Full Le Monde's article here.