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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10459
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/jha

Asylum - most countries reject emergency mechanism

Brussels, 23/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - During the debate on Thursday 22 September on the common European asylum system, which is set to enter into force in 2012, a majority of countries of the EU (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia and Latvia) opposed the creation of an “emergency mechanism” which would lead, as a last resort, to the suspension of transfers of asylum seekers provided for in the event of massive migratory pressure on any one country....

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