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EU: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Cannes

01 July 2008

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European Pact on immigration and asylum and Presidency Note: Asylum procedures (pdfs)

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"EU Ministers are saying there is no "Fortress Europe", yet anyone with eyes to see knows that there is and that the final building blocks are being put into place.

The EU is denying sanctuary to people fleeing from poverty and persecution while at the same time actively recruiting skilled labour from the Third World in order to maintain its own standard of living - because it has an ageing population.- and thus perpetuate its exploitation of scarce global resources. It is a position devoid of any humanity or morality."

- EU won over to France's hard line on immigration and asylum (euobserver, link)

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- Mercosur anger at EU migrant laws (BBC News, link)

- Latin American leaders condemn 'racist' EU law (euobserver, link)

- Central American states reject EU Returns Directive: Full-text of statement (pdf)

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