MEPs are poised to support the EU fundamental rights agency - to be set up next January - but insist the new body should also tackle justice and police-related issues, which some governments are opposing.
The agency is supposed to replace the existing European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) in Vienna at the beginning of 2007, but some insiders suggest this plan could be delayed due to remaining divisions among national capitals.
Under the compromise deal between...
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