On Wednesday 25 April, the European Parliament's civil liberties committee established its position on the draft regulation to harmonise procedures between member states and speed up the processing of asylum requests (see EUROPE 12008).
The report by Laura Ferrara (EFDD, Italy) was adopted by a comfortable majority (36 votes in favour, 12 against, 8 abstentions) and also excludes Turkey from the joint list of safe countries, despite the fact that the candidate country for European...