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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8578

5 November 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
Discussions on asylum procedures on Thursday - Amnesty International finds text unacceptable - HCR takes more balanced view

Brussels, 04/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - Thursday's Justice and Home Affairs Council will continue its tricky discussions on the harmonisation of asylum application processing, on the basis of a text which has been described by Amnesty International as "unacceptable". Ministers will firstly discuss the issue of specific procedures at the borders and those of safe third countries, the transit countries asylum seekers could be sent back to for their application to be examined. They may also...

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