EU 'must share burden of asylum'
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EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini says member states must show solidarity dealing with refugees.
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EU interior ministers began talks on Tuesday on how to deal with illegal migrants stranded at sea amid what Malta called a "free for all" among member states about who should take them in.
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Plans for EU co-operation on asylum and justice will be debated by MPs amid claims the UK could lose key powers.
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EU patients should have the right to travel to other member countries for treatment, the EU health commissioner says.
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Britain will not accept a common European Union asylum system with its own processing centre, visas and border guards, Home Secretary David Blunkett said ahead of a meeting of the 25-nation bloc's interior ministers to discuss the issue.
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EU Justice and Interior ministers on Monday will discuss the future policy course on a wide-ranging security and immigration program that includes controversial proposals for refugee detention camps in Africa.
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The United States and the European Union sought Thursday to coordinate action against a growing problem of terrorist sympathizers using charities and cash couriers as covers to fund violence.
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The European Union needs to develop a common policy to deal with illegal immigration, British European Affairs Minister Geoff Hoon said during a visit to Portugal.
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Malta urges its EU neighbours to take a greater share of the illegal migrants crossing over from Africa.
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Pakistan's prime minister appealed to the European Union on Tuesday to help repatriate some 3 million Afghan refugees, a move he said would help clear his country of militants blamed for attacks in border regions.
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The U.N. refugee agency appealed Thursday to the European Union to do more to protect refugees fleeing Iraq, saying the war was the cause of the biggest displacement of people in the Middle East in recent history.
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With hundreds crossing the Mediterranean, European leaders have been sparring over a plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
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Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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The urgent need to reinforce border controls to prevent thousands of illegal immigrants from entering the European Union will be at the top of the agenda when EU justice and interior ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday. The ministers are expected to agree on measures to strengthen border controls in a bid to reduce the number of illegal entries to the bloc each year, but the question of funding will be paramount to any decisions taken.
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Europe must make good on plans to set up an independent funding body for science or face an unprecedented brain drain, a leading scientist has warned.
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Patients should be able to go to other member countries for treatment, the EU health commissioner says.
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Former Dutch MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, want to see an EU fund to pay for security for individuals facing death threats