EU states can more easily turn back asylum seekers and send them abroad under newly tweaked legislative proposals from the European Commission.
The move on Tuesday (20 May) is part of a wider bid by the EU to curtail irregular migration and have other countries shoulder applications for asylum on its behalf with rights groups like Amnesty International and the...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.