EU will charter flights to take illegal migrants back home

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Series Details 23.1.04
Publication Date 23/01/2004
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At an informal meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Dublin from 22-23 January 2004, Ministers agreed to fund charter flights to return illegal immigrants to their country of origin under a plan to speed the repatriation of asylum seekers. An agency to run the fund is expected to be established within 12 months.

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