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Sarkozy EU visit highlights rifts over immigration

French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy has criticised Spanish and Italian policies to regularise illegal immigrants, highlighting EU division over immigration on the same day as the European Commission president called for more unity.

Mr Sarkozy on Thursday (7 September) met European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso just after the commission chief had taken the unusual step of directly writing to EU leaders to ask them for more help on illegal immigration on the bloc's southe...

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