France is to speed up its handling of asylum-seekers, two years after being criticised by the European Commission for the time it takes to consider cases. The National Assembly voted to reform asylum law by 324-188 on Tuesday.
France's administration takes an average of two years to deal with asylum requests from people claiming to flee repressive regimes and intolerance abroad but on Tuesday French MPs approved a project to reform the process and streamline procedures.
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