16/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - To coincide with the JHA informal Council in Vienna, The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) published a press release on the Austrian Presidency's priorities on asylum and refugee policy (see EUROPE 9109). It considers, with regard to regional protection schemes (see EUROPE 9048) that the EU should make a gesture of solidarity to protect refugees and to reduce the factors that encourage them to want to enter European Territory. This is all the more...