Brussels, 03/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 3 August, the European Commission announced that the number of persons illegally crossing EU external borders had plummeted in 2009. The European Executive published the annual report on the activities of Eurodac, the European biometric database used for determining which member states must examine a request for asylum, by providing essential information on trends in asylum requests and illegal entries to the EU. In 2009, Eurodac processed...