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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8517

2 August 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/switzerland/asylum
Switzerland lists EU, EFTA, candidate countries, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia as “safe countries”

Brussels, 01/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - From 1 August onwards, Switzerland will automatically reject asylum requests from citizens of the EU, EFTA (Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein), candidate countries (with the exception of Turkey), Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia. Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Gambia, Senegal, India and Mongolia were already on the “safe country” list. Requests will be considered as clearly unfounded a priori, and rejected using a simplified procedure. A...

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