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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9676
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council

Ministers give green light to “returns” directive

Brussels, 05/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - After three years of difficult negotiation, the home affairs ministers of he 27 member states of the European Union, meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday 5 June, backed a much challenged draft directive setting common rules for returning illegal immigrants to their countries of origin. The draft still has to be approved, on 18 June, by the European Parliament for it to be definitively adopted. On Wednesday 4 June, the representatives of the member states...

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