Brussels, 21/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - European Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot has rejected the concerns expressed by a number of countries that improvement in the European asylum system would result in a surge of illegal immigrants into the EU. “We have been told that clarification of asylum procedures will attract and encourage more illegal immigration. But, on the contrary, it is a clear, rational, harmonised system that is the best way to combat the traffickers in...