EU officials should decide in special EU asylum centres in North Africa who is allowed to enter the continent, German interior minister Otto Schily has proposed.
According to German media, Mr Schily suggested during a meeting with EU interior ministers on Monday (20 July) that special EU asylum agencies be set up in northern Africa, staffed by EU member state officials.
The EU centres should process and judge applications by African asylum seekers before they enter Europe.
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