28 March 2012
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EU Returns Directive - background
Council of Europe: On eve of International Migrants Day, PACE committee head slams EU proposals for irregular migrants (press release, Strasbourg, 17.12.2007).
"An EU proposal to fix at 18 months the maximum period of detention for irregular migrants in Europe “flies in the face of humanity”, according to the Chair of the Migration Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)."
CoE PACE: Resolution (pdf) and Recommendations (pdf)
Standing Committee of experts (Utrecht) - Opinion (pdf) and see also: ECRE-AI letter (pdf)
Hearing with NGOs on the Return Directive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007, European Parliament, Strasbourg The Group GUE/NGL host key NGOs to debate the return directive and the future of European immigration policy: 17.00 hrs with Migreurop (European NGOs Network), European Conference of Churches (tbc), GISTI (France), CIRE (Belgium), Statewatch (EU civil liberties), ARCI (Italy), KERK IN ACTIE (Netherlands, tbc), CIMADE (France), PRO ASYL (Germany) (tbc) See also:
- No to the Outrageuous
Directive - Appeal to Members of the European Parliament (link)
- "State of play": For the rejection of the Directive:
English
(pdf) and French
(pdf)
- Conference of European Churches
- Press Release No.07-45/e 19 November 2007: CEC Central Committee
concerned about administrative detention of migrants and re-entry
ban in EU countires (pdf)
- Against
the detention and forced removal of minors (link)
- Commission
Proposal for a Directive on common standards and procedures in
Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals
(original)
- European Parliament
draft Resolution for debate at plenary session (pdf)
Background:
- Statewatch
analysis: The original EU Directive on return expulsion
(Frances Webber analysis, April 2007)
- Statewatch
analysis: Revising the proposed EU Expulsion Directive
(Steve Peers analysis of German text, April 2007)
- House of Lords Select Committee on the EU: Illegal
Migrants: proposals for a common EU returns policy (May
2006, pdf)
"Against
the outrageous Directive!", full-text of speech
given by Yasha Maccanico (Statewatch) at the hearing with NGOs
organised by the GUE group, European Parliament, Strasbourg on
12 December 2007
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