The idea of creating asylum-processing centres outside European borders, put on hold at the European Summit of Thessalonica in 2003, seems to have gained support at the European Union Interior Ministers’ meeting on the 1 October 2004.
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International campaign against readmission agreements EU-third countries
Project for an international campaign
MSF denied access to identification centres for asylum seekers
On 27 May 2004, the Italian branch of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that its volunteers were denied access to the Identification Centres for asylum seekers in Otranto and Borgo Mezzanone (both in Apulia, southern Italy). The organisation considers this refusal of entry a response to the publication by MSF in January of a critical report on the situation in Italian Centri di Permanenza temporanea
Kofi Annan speech at the European Parliament
A Europe open to well managed migration will be fairer, richer, stronger, says Secretary-General in Brussels address
UNHCR proposals (JHA Dublin)
HCR press release - HCR Ruud Lubbers advocates the creation of european centres for asylum seekers to facilitate the deportation of those who were not granted the status.