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...