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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10885
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Malmström reminds Malta of its international asylum obligations

Brussels, 10/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 9 July, the tension mounted between European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat whose comments on refoulement of migrants who arrived from Libya on Tuesday morning provoked both anger and concern from the Swedish commissioner.

On the night of Monday and Tuesday morning, the Maltese authorities rescued three boats that had left Libya with 300 people on board. On Tuesday morning, the...

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