Berlin says EU's Dublin rules are still valid


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  • Tuesday, 01 Sep 2015

Migrants face Hungarian police in the main Eastern Railway station in Budapest, Hungary, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has not suspended European Union rules that oblige migrants to file for asylum in the first EU country they arrive in, a spokesman for Germany's interior ministry said on Tuesday.

"Germany has not suspended Dublin," the spokesman said, referring to the regulation that contains the asylum rule.

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