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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10920

13 September 2013
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) jha
Parliament backs temporary suspension of visa-free regimes

Brussels, 12/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - It is certainly a measure only to be used as a last resort, but is now one possible under European legislation. On Thursday 12 September, MEPs in Strasbourg backed a safeguard clause allowing the suspension of visa-free regimes granted to third countries whose nationals abuse the asylum system of EU member states once they arrive.

Although the MEPs, like the European Commission which had made the proposal in May 2011, refuse to single out third...

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