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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Germany, Italy call for EU-wide migrant registration system

[A migrant holding a child stands in a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni]Germany and Italy's interior ministers have written to the European Commission calling for an EU-wide system to register migrants and a harmonisation of selection procedures and rights for asylum seekers, a German newspaper reported. In the letter seen by Sueddeutsche Zeitung, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and Italy's Angelino Alfano called for an "ambitious reform" of the Dublin rules - which oblige migrants to request asylum in the first EU country they enter - by means of a "newly adjusted Common European Asylum System".


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