Portugal and Spain are seeking to create a proposal for a common EU immigration policy to regulate "in a legal, supportive and orderly manner" the flows of illegal immigrants from the African continent.
Spanish vice president Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega and Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates met earlier this week to agree on a common immigration proposal, which they want to bring to Brussels.
The proposal seeks four essential goals: to facilitate "an ordered and legal i...
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