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EU: Euro asylum resolution thwarted

01 November 1994

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A tough new Resolution on procedures for determining asylum claims would have been approved by the interior and justice ministers' meeting in Brussels at the beginning of December but for the simmering dispute between Spain and other EU states such as Belgium over the issue of refugees of European origin. The draft resolution was widely believed to include the abolition of suspensive rights of appeal in "fast-track" cases, which would mean that if the authorities deemed the application for asylum "manifestly unfounded", the asylum-seeker is removed before the appeal in which the court decides if the expulsion was lawful. Several countries have already removed suspensive appeal rights, and have been condemned by UNHCR, Amnesty International and human rights and refugee groups; the draft Resolution is said to propose extending the erosion of due process Europe-wide as well as deeming various countries "safe".

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