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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8629

23 January 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 57
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/un
HCR alarmed at clogging up of European asylum system after enlargement

Dublin, 22/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers drew European interior ministers' attention to the dangers of the asylum system getting clogged up after enlargement. According to Lubbers, enlargement and the entry into force of European legislation risked producing "a increase in the number of demands for asylum that have to be processed in the new countries bordering the Union". He stated that the so-called "Dublin II"...

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