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Europe migration: EU plans mandatory pact to 'rebuild trust'
The German-backed pact would require all 27 EU countries to take part
The European Union has called for a compulsory system where member states would either agree to take in asylum seekers or take charge of sending back those refused asylum.
Also in the programme: One of three officers involved in the shooting dead of black woman Breonna Taylor, a black woman, is to be indicted, but not directly for her killing; and Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was treated for Novichok nerve agent poisoning.
(Photo: European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson in a conference on the 23rd of September in Brussels. Credit: Reuters).
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