EU seeks joint asylum policy
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EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg plan moves to integrate their asylum and immigration procedures.
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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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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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LONDON Millions of migrants, often from Asia and North Africa, are changing the face of Europe and prompting officials of the European Union to try to develop a common immigration policy.
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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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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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The EU is presenting a 'blue card' that would aim to attract skilled workers to Europe and regulate immigration.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug 6 (IPS) - Rejected Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers have  launched nationwide protest against a stricter migration policy.
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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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European Union foreign ministers sought Friday to present a united front over the status of Kosovo, playing down divisions over how much autonomy the Serbian province should win.
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THE HAGUE, Sep 29  (IPS) - The EU should establish a system for "orderly  intake and integration of migrants,"  experts recommended at  a conference on European development policy.
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Interior ministers from the five largest Western European states said Monday they had agreed to set up a common &quot;watch list&quot; of terrorist suspects but they remained split over a controversial plan to create migrant holding centers in Africa.
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European Union ministers are meeting in Luxembourg to discuss a five-year plan for co-ordinating policies on asylum, immigration and cross-border security.
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Interior ministers from Italy, France, Germany, Britain and Spain began informal talks Sunday, searching for ways to improve cooperation across the continent in fighting terror and illegal immigration.
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European Union  states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway  Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern  that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands European Union leaders clashed Friday over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Sweden, which takes in half of Iraqi refugees fleeing to Europe, calls on other EU to take in their share.