New Commissioner supports setting up external refugee detention centres

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The newly-appointed EU Commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione from Italy, for the renamed Directorate-General for "Justice, Freedom and Security" in the Commission has come out in favour of the creation of a refugee detention centre in north Africa to hold and "process" refugees and asylum-seekers. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk he said this was a "good idea" to create processing centres in countries such as Tunisia.

It is reported that the idea will be discussed at yet another meeting of the "G5" EU states (Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the UK) in October.

see: euobserver
see: eupolitixs
see: Statewatch analysis:
Killing me softly? “Improving access to durable solutions”: doublespeak and the dismantling of refugee protection in the EU

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