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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9850

28 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
“Elgafaji” ruling to have limited effect

Brussels, 27/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Jacques Barrot, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, said on Thursday 26 February that the 17 February ruling from the European Court of Justice would have only a limited effect in practice. The Court had concluded that, given that Iraq is in a state of widespread and indiscriminate violence, asylum seekers - in the case in hand an Iraqi couple, Meki and Noor Elgafaji - may be exempted from having to prove that they would be specifically at...

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