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European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) produce a critique of the EU's asylum policies
01 June 2004
Peer Baneke, ECRE General Secretary said:
"At the EU Tampere Summit in 1999, Governments made promises to refugees for better protection. Many of those promises have been broken and the worst practices of some states have now found their way into EU legislation":
ECRE report (pdf) See also: Statewatch analysis: Implementing the Amsterdam Treaty: Cementing Fortress Europe:
Analysis