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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8350

29 November 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
No agreement on definition of refugee

Brussels, 28/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Council did not reach an agreement on Thursday on the criteria giving right to asylum status or alternative protection. Germany raised two reservations, Council sources say: - 1) it returned to the consensus reached at the informal JHA meeting in Copenhagen on the fact that the prosecution by non-state agents may also give right to refugee status; 2) it poses the question of granting refugee status to persons who state they are in danger because of...

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