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Eurobarometer and Climate Action
The results from the 2010 Eurobarometer survey were presented today. I was pleased to see that the EU is still seen as the most effective level for tackling the effects of the economic crisis. The...
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Visit to Ljubljana
2011-05-27 Today I have been in Ljubljana in Slovenia. I met with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Justice. The discussions mainly focused on visa regulation, Schengen,...
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2011-06-01 The meeting with the African Union continued today. Focus in the discussions were on how we can support a democratic development in Northern Africa, especially Egypt and Tunisia. We also...
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Today I had a working lunch with the Polish minister Jerzy Miller and the chair of the LIBE committee Juan Lopez Aguilar to discuss how to proceed with our work on the asylum package this autumn. One...
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A welcome vote
Libyan refugees in Tunisia, 2011. Photo: EbS The adoption of a common European refugee law is one of my main goals, if not the single most important, for me as a commissioner. Member states have been...
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We can do more
IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation/TURKEY (c) The fog was dense in Luxembourg when the Council meeting for Justice and Home Affairs was about to start. Several of the ministers could not land because...
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A Common European Asylum System is here
Somali refugees en route through Kenya, 2009. Photo: B.Heger/UNHCR The EU will have a common European asylum system by the fall of 2015! We are now putting years of hard negotiations behind us after...
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