On Tuesday 30 May, the European Parliament's civil liberties committee adopted a report on reforming the Eurodac system for comparing digital fingerprints from asylum seekers and for identifying nationals from third countries, or stateless people, residing illegally. The report was adopted by 35 votes in favour, 10 against and 8 abstentions, and the civil liberties committee MEPs thus think that the European police agency Europol "should have direct access to the Eurodac database".
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