European Union ministers meeting in Cannes have backed French proposals for a common policy to stem illegal immigration.
France has made harmonising the bloc's immigration policy a priority of its six-month EU presidency that began this month. The pact, which would not be legally binding but would carry political weight, asks EU member states to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration, to crack down on the employers of illegal migrants and to live Merger forms transatlantic union ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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