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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9914
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council

EU sympathetic to southern countries' immigration problems

Brussels, 04/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 4 April, EU member states committed themselves to helping the southern countries, in particular Malta, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain, which are faced with wave after wave of illegal immigrants arriving from Northern Africa. “The concerns of the Mediterranean countries were really taken seriously,” said Czech Home Affairs Minister Martin Pecina. He said that a number of guidelines would direct EU action over the coming weeks: building...

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