Commissioner welcomes new rules for EU asylum seekers

European home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström has welcomed parliament's decision to update the existing 'inefficient, dysfunctional and unfair' system governing asylum seekers in the EU

EU 'squanders' chance to end detention of asylum seekers

With terms for a common European asylum system finally agreed, secretary general of the European council on refugees and exiles Michael Diedring calls for member states to put an end to detention for those fleeing persecution

MEPs call for EU organised crime strategy

MEPs have voted for a new European strategy and stronger instruments in an attempt to step up the fight against organised crime in the EU

Daul calls for commission to 'force resignation' of Olaf chief

EPP group chair Joseph Daul has called for the resignation of Olaf chief Giovanni Kessler, calling the director general's position "politically and legally untenable"

EU's response to violence in Turkey branded 'too little, too late'

Georgios Koumoutsakos, a vice chair of parliament's EU-Turkey delegation, has condemned the EU's slow reaction to the increasing violence and ongoing protests in Turkey, describing it as "too little, too late"