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EU to create new quarantine system for Mediterranean migrants

Ian Traynor in Brussels

Tuesday 23 June 2015 12.23 EDT

EU leaders have decided to create a new system of quarantining migrants in southern Italy and Greece to enable the forcible and swift registration, fingerprinting, expulsion, and, if necessary, detention for up to 18 months of those deemed to be illegal immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya.

Read the story on the {Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/23/eu-to-create-new-quarantine-system-for-mediterranean-migrants)