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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10693
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

EP approves new asylum reception conditions - NGOs are critical

Brussels, 20/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 19 September, after four years of negotiations, MEPs of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee validated a compromise reached with Council on the conditions in which asylum seekers are hosted in the EU. The compromise was, however, criticised by the NGOs as it keeps in place the possibility for asylum seekers to be detained in prisons. In parallel to the Dublin II regulation, which was also voted on Wednesday and which aims to...

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