G-8 justice ministers discuss terrorism, Internet crime and illegal immigration

Franco Frattini, the European Union's justice and home affairs commissioner, told reporters that he would propose that each EU and G-8 member state establish a central national unit to prevent cybercrime in order to create "a real international network of cooperation."

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Frattini said he would also discuss new measures to combat illegal immigration, focusing on the countries where migrants start their journeys as well as transit countries. He called the black labor market "the most dangerous pull factor for illegal immigration to Europe."

Frattini said the EU had recently flown its first joint repatriation flight out of Europe,  an Austrian-organized mission to return dozens of Georgian and Armenian crime suspects to their home countries, the AP reports.

At the outset of Thursday's meeting, Russian presidential chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin called illegal immigration a pressing problem for G-8 member countries.