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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9698

8 July 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
EU welcomes Immigration Pact

Brussels, 07/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - The French proposal for a Pact on Immigration and Asylum was given broad backing, on Monday 7 July, within the European Union, and this included from Spain which had expressed reservations. “At the moment, it has broad support,” said European Immigration Commissioner Jacques Barrot at the informal meeting of Home Affairs Ministers in Cannes. The aim is to tackle illegal immigration while promoting the integration of legal immigrants, the text says,...

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