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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8766

11 August 2004
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/illegal immigration/italy
Following latest disaster in Italy, JHA Council may look at illegal immigration in September

Brussels, 10/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - More than two dozen people died in the last few days off the coast of Sicily after trying to reach Italy illegally by boat from Libya. Both Rome and Tripoli have called on the EU to take more effective measures against illegal immigration, and in Tuesday's Corriere della Sera, Dutch minister Rita Verdonk said the Dutch Presidency was willing to have the issue on the agenda of the JHA Council on 30 September and 1 October. European Commission...