BERLIN (Reuters) - Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn called for the creation of an EU-wide refugee authority, saying the same standards needed to be used to deal with asylum applications across the region.
Asselborn, Luxembourg's minister in charge of migration, suggested expanding the European Asylum Support Office, an EU agency based in Malta, into a European refugee authority, in an interview due to be published in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday.
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