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What's in the landmark EU migration reform hardening border protections?

Migrants irregularly entering the EU will have their fingerprints taken under new rules coming into force on June 12
Migrants irregularly entering the EU will have their fingerprints taken under new rules coming into force on 12 June. © Aris MESSINIS / AFP

Brussels (AFP) – A major reform of European migration rules aimed at hardening border procedures and overhauling the asylum process comes into force on Friday.

"For the first time we have a comprehensive European system," said the EU's migration chief Magnus Brunner, maintaining the reform would hand EU nations more control over comings and goings.

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