The EU has announced a major package of proposals aimed at harmonising member state rules on illegal immigration and the returning of failed asylum seekers.
Presenting the proposals on Thursday (1 September), EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini said that the EU needed "coherent, efficient and credible" common EU-standards immigration and asylum rules.
In order to bring 'asylum shopping' and illegal immigration to an end, the commission called upon member states to adopt stric...
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