Brussels, 23/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a press release, European Economic and Social Committee President Mario Sepi has come out in favour of the European Commission's proposal to set up a European Asylum Support Office, “as part of an intensified effort to harmonise different national laws in this area”.
“The right to asylum is all the more fundamental at a time when we are witnessing countless violations of this right - one of the rights of the person - and inconsistencies in its...