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EU to revisit asylum camp debate

Home affairs ministers meeting in the Netherlands this week are set to re-examine proposals to place EU immigration camps in North Africa.

Proposals are expected to be put forward by the German interior minister Otto Schily at an informal meeting of EU interior ministers which begins in The Hague Wednesday (29 September).

Mr Schily is expected to circulate proposals which would see asylum applicants held at so-called "transit centres" in North Africa while applications are being p...

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