The European Union will clamp down on false asylum claims with the launch on Wednesday of a new Eurodac system to track asylum seekers and illegal immigrants through their fingerprint records.
The move coincides with calls earlier this week from the Greek government for other EU countries to share the burden of any influx of refugees possibly resulting from a war in Iraq. But the 6.5 million euro Eurodac system, has been criticised by human rights groups for taking the wrong approach to...
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