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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8432

29 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/informal jha
Mitigated welcome to British proposal for extreme hardening of asylum policy - questions on legality and feasibility

Veria, 28/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The British proposal on extreme toughening of the European asylum policy received a mitigated welcome from most EU15 Ministers of the Interior, who met in informal Council in Veria, Greece. The welcome was cautiously favourable, several diplomats say, but, although the need for reform was recognised, the questions posed on details, legality and feasibility of this proposal were plentiful. The discussion took place in the absence of the UN High Commissioner...

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