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EP condemns refugee "trading"

01 May 1994

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The European parliament has condemned the repatriation agreements whereby central and eastern European states agree to take back rejected asylum-seekers from western Europe in exchange for aid or preferential trade terms, which resulted in "refugees being traded like goods" (see Statewatch vol 3 no 6). In a strongly worded resolution adopted on 21 April 1994, parliament recognised the persecution of Gypsies in many central and eastern European states, and particularly condemned the agreement of 2 September 1992 between Germany and Romania, whereby Romania agreed to take back 10,000 Roma and received DM 1 billion in exchange. The resolution also called for the legal protection of gypsies and other landless minorities throughout Europe.

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