Under EU rules, asylum seekers face being uprooted for second time
31 March 2017 |
4:49 am
An estimated 22,000 asylum seekers currently in France are in a situation of legal limbo. They are deemed eligible to apply for asylum in the EU - but under what's known as the Dublin Regulation, they have to return to the EU country where they were first formally registered.
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