14/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 14 January, the European Commission ruled out any correlation between European asylum policy and expansion of the Schengen zone. Friso Roscam Abbing, the spokesman for the commissioner on immigration, indicated at a Commission press meeting that “there is no correlation between asylum policy and Schengen enlargement”. The spokesman was responding to the question of a journalist concerned about the increasing number of Chechen refugees arriving in...