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Vienna praises Sofia and Bucharest for cracking down on illegal migration – but final decision will be taken in December.

Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from prison in Poland.