Brussels, 21/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - About 13% of the total number of asylum seekers making asylum applications in the EU in 2004 had already submitted an application in another Member State or in the same Member State, the European Commission announced on Tuesday, publishing the second annual report on EURODAC, the EU-wide fingerprint database for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum seekers and illegal entrants.
The Eurodac system operating for the Member States (except Denmark),...