Brussels, 09/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - On the first day of the asylum conference on 8 September in Paris, the secretary general of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), Bjarte Vandvik, suggested that the fact that the European asylum system is shared between the 27 members of the EU did not mean that it should be mediocre. Mr Vandvik indicated in a press release that “unless refugees have access to the EU and have a genuine chance of lodging a request for protection, a...