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Development committee explores using aid as external migration leverage
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Parliament’s development committee explores further use of aid as external migration leverage
The meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE) on 5 November will see the presentation of a report on 'Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries'.
The report, to be presented by rapporteur Lukas Mandl (EPP), reads as a laundry list of actions for pursuing the EU’s external migration policy ambitions. Recommendations in the current draft include:
- systematic integration of “migratory considerations into development policies and programmes;
- “tailor-made” external migration approaches to individual countries;
- integrating “migration-related conditionality” into development funding, thereby “ensuring that funding allocations take into account partner countries’ cooperation on return and readmission”;
- more attention given to the advantages of deploying private investment in third countries;
- “greater financial and political commitment” to externalisation projects along migratory routes;
- combatting ‘brain drain’ in developing countries by exploring ways to “return and reintegrate” skilled migrants; and
- further media and outreach campaigns in countries of origin and transit to dissuade people moving.
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