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EU JUSTICE ministers are resisting core elements of plans from the European Commission to deepen the reach of the union’s asylum system.

While home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström wants to rework fundamentally the union’s asylum law by 2012, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern said yesterday that there was “some scepticism” as to whether that timetable was achievable.