Meeting in Brussels on Friday 9 December, the home affairs ministers of the member states of the EU reached a partial political agreement on the draft Eurodac regulation, the main objective of which is to provide law enforcement authorities with a biometric database of migrants and asylum seekers.
This regulation aims to bring the Eurodac system into line with the proposed changes to the Dublin rules and aims to allow migrants' digital fingerprints to be registered when they enter the EU,...