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No money left to fund EU response to refugee crisis

As the humanitarian and migration crisis worsens each day, the European Council and the European Commission multiply financial pledges to third countries to persuade them to “park” applicants for asylum and immigration on their territory…

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Hungarian laws to hunt down refugees are a reminder of Europe’s dark past – ALDE Group to maintain demand for 7.1 procedure –

Hungarian laws to hunt down refugees are a reminder of Europe's dark past - ALDE Group to maintain demand for 7.1 procedure –
Given the dramatically worsening situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, most recently illustrated by the laws which grant the police the right to search for immigrants in people’s homes without authorized permission and allow the army to use force against refugees, the ALDE Group has decided to maintain its demand in the civil liberties committee that the European Parliament starts the article 7.1 procedure, despite opposition from the S&D group.

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