Cannes, 08/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - It was a very happy Brice Hortefeux, French Immigration Minister, who, in the evening of Monday 7 July, welcomed the “unanimous agreement” on the proposed European Pact on Immigration and Asylum presented to European Union member states in Cannes. The aims of the pact are to encourage legal immigration for work, to regulate immigration of families, to combat illegal immigration by stepping up border controls, and to make it easier to remove illegal...