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EU: Statewatch Analysis: The EU Directive on Reception Conditions: A weak compromise by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Law School, University of Essex

18 July 2012

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"While the final agreed text is undeniably an improvement upon both the 2003 Directive and the Council’s version of the new Directive, it is still a missed opportunity to ensure that asylum-seekers in the EU are fully treated with dignity and fairness in all respects while waiting for a decision on their application, given the many possibilities which remain for Member States to detain them, provide them with low levels of benefits, delay their access to employment and make it difficult to challenge any of these decisions."

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