Auditors: EU migrant return deals 'encourage' arrivals
14 September 2021
An article in EUobserver looks at a report by the European Court of Auditors, and cites a document published by Statewatch.
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"The EU has some 24 agreements around the world.
Most are not working as intended, pushing the European Commission to threaten visa restrictions as the EU toughens its approach on returns.
The point was made repeatedly by EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson over the past year.
"We're using the political pressure, we're using the legal pressure to a third country to have them to comply with cooperation on readmission," she said in August.
Johansson is currently renegotiating several readmission agreements, which have since been linked to a revised visa code.
It had also reviewed return cooperation by 39 countries in an internal document, leaked by the London-based civil liberties organisation, Statewatch."
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