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Reform of ‘asylum’ package will have to be relaunched with possibility of reconsidering certain elements, according to Ylva Johansson

Brussels, 27/09/2019 (Agence Europe)

Discussions on the ‘asylum’ package will have to be relaunched, but also, possibly, some of its most complex elements will have to be reconsidered.

This is what the Commissioner-designate for Home Affairs, Sweden's Ylva Johansson, former Swedish Labour Minister, said on Friday 27 September in her answers to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee, which will hear her on Tuesday 1 October.

Without saying that the new Commission would automatically rethink the famous Dublin...