Britain, France and Germany have joined forces to pressure the EU into setting up migrant detention centres in Italy and Greece by the end of the year. The migrant centres would distinguish between genuine refugees, who would be allowed to stay, and economic migrants, who would be returned home. In a joint statement, the countries called on Luxembourg, which holds the rotating presidency of the bloc, to convene an emergency meeting between the home and interior ministers of each member state within the next two weeks in order to discuss concrete proposals that can be voted on at the next scheduled meeting in October, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported. Those proposals include setting up a number of migration detention centres at “hot spots” in Italy and Greece where migrants would be fingerprinted and their data recorded. A decision would then be made on whether they were genuine refugees in need