The French President and the German Chancellor said Tuesday they are working on an agreement of some Schengen countries to return asylum sealers to countries where they were first registered.

“We will cooperate with as many interested member states on finding an inter-governmental agreement among several governments,” French President Emmanuel Macron said during a press conference with the German Angela Merkel.

The agreement is heading in the direction where “asylum seekers will quickly be returned to the country where they were first registered,” he added.

Most migrants coming to France and Germany come from Libya, travelling across Italy which should register them in the EURODAC database, the EU fingerprint database for identifying asylum seekers and irregular border-crossers.

According to European laws, the country in which migrants are first registered must, in principle, handle their asylum application, but this system was not fully respected in order to spare the countries like Italy and Greece, the main entrance countries for the migrants.

“We support coordinated action. It would be better if we acted on the European level, but that is very difficult. That is why cooperation with some countries must also be an option,” Merkel confirmed, while some countries like Poland and Hungary do not wish to deal with the migrant issue at all.

Merkel and Macron also mentioned the possibility of creating a “mechanisms” which would prevent the arrival of economic migrants into transit countries like Libya. The mechanisms could be in the shape of migrant centres in Northern Africa, controlled by the UN.