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EU and Moroccan delegates discussed migration /// European Legal Gateway Office in India /// EuroParl discussions on externalisation and migration funding /// Council questioned over plans to share biometric data with the US
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EU and Moroccan delegates discussed migration
The foreign affairs chiefs of the EU and Morocco, Kaja Kallas and Nasser Bourita, along with their teams, met in Brussels on 29 January for the fifteenth meeting of the Association Council. Mediterranean commissioner Dubravka Šuica was also present at the meeting, where migration was on the discussion agenda.
ICMPD to run the EU’s European Legal Gateway Office in India
An event in New Delhi on February 19 inaugurated the launch of a new ‘European Legal Gateway Office’ in India, to be run in part by the International Centre for Migration Policy development. The office will nominally provide support regular labour migration between the EU and India, focussed on information and technology workers.
The ICMPD has also produced, along with the Rabat process, a handbook on ‘sustainable reintegration’.
EuroParl discussions on externalisation and migration funding
On 24 February, the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights saw presentations on the human rights consequences of the EU’s border externalisation regime from Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Michael O’Flaherty, as well as the Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer Jonas Grimheden, and Samira Bouslama, Senior Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.
In his introductory remarks, O’Flaherty stated clearly what is already well known:
“Where externalisation initiatives have been implemented, serious human rights violations have been documented systematically”
Also on 24 February, the EuroParl’s Development committee discussed a draft opinion on “Establishing the Union support for asylum, migration and integration for the period from 2028 to 2034.”
Council questioned over plans to share biometric data with the US
MEP Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle (Renew) has written to the Council demanding information about why the Council has acquiesced to US demands for direct access to personal data stored in EU member state databases. More information on this plan is on the Statewatch site.
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