EU plan to reform asylum and migrant biometrics collection still in the works

The European Union is inching towards finalizing the European Asylum and Migration Pact, a complex package of asylum and migration policy reforms that includes boosting the collection of biometric data in Eurodac. But non-governmental organization Statewatch warns that despite lawmakers reaching a political agreement on the key issues of the Pact in December, many of its details are to be decided in the following months.

Last week, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor announced that …

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