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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8215

22 May 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Tony Blair hopes Seville Summit will "relaunch" common asylum and immigration policy by making link between development aid and fight against illegal immigration - Speech by Peter Hain

Brussels, 21/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The United Kingdom hopes the Seville Summit will relaunch the common asylum and immigration policy and use every possible means to put pressure on third countries from whence illegal migrants come. "Despite some progress, the worthwhile action we agreed at Tampere is bogged down" (European Area of Justice, Security and Freedom), writes Tony Blair to his European counterparts. "We have missed deadlines on asylum, made slow progress encouraging returns,...

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