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Update on asylum seekers and the new EU accession countries [June 2004]
On 1 May 2004, the European Union (EU) expanded from 15 to 25 members. This briefings explains how enlargement of the EU affects asylum seekers of the ten new EU accession countries still awaiting an asylum decision in the UK.
Published in June 2004