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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9763

17 October 2008
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (eu) eu/immigration
EU27 ratify European pact on immigration and asylum

Brussels, 16/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 16 October in Brussels, heads of state and government from the European Union definitively adopted the French proposed European Pact on Immigration and Asylum. At the end of the European Council, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: “Europe now has a genuine immigration policy - it was both expected and inevitable”. It is true that the adoption of the pact, one of the French Presidency priorities, has been eclipsed by the impact of the...

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