An EU-wide law setting minimum standards for granting refugee status took effect on Tuesday (10 October), with Brussels hoping to close big gaps in what member states accept as qualifying crieria for asylum seekers.
Member states are bound by the UN refugee convention of 1961 whose article one on the definition of a refugee is wide open to legal interpretation.
This has led to a situation where people citing similar histories and reasons for fleeing their countries had vastly dif...
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