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In response to the arrival of thousands of people at the EU's borders with Belarus, the European Commission has recently published a raft of new proposals that would weaken asylum rights and strengthen border surveillance and controls. Described as “temporary” on 1 December, proposals published this week would allow their enactment whenever the Council deems migrants are being “instrumentalised” to “attack” the European Union.

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EU: Detention at the borders to increase "voluntary" return of migrants 05 May 2021 A new strategy on "voluntary" return and reintegration unveiled by the European Commission at the end of last month notes that the use of detention "can increase the uptake of voluntary returns at early stages of the return process." The proposed introduction of "return border procedures" - whereby people arriving at the EUs borders could be subject to mandatory detention for up to 10 months, likely rendering i...

EU Reporter Published 4 weeks ago The Commission is adopting the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration. The Strategy promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, a key objective under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. It sets out practical measures to strengthen the legal and operational framework for voluntary returns from Europe and from transit countries, improve the quality of return and reintegration programmes, e...

Info 28 April 2021 by eub2 -- last modified 28 April 2021 The European Commission adopted on 27 April the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration. The Strategy promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, a key objective under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Advertisement What is the Commission presenting? The Commission is adopting the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration to promote voluntary ...

InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/02/24 The policy of migrant returns between EU countries is complex and creates "blurred lines," an expert in EU law and migration has told InfoMigrants. In the light of two recent cases of returns from Austria to Hungary, we decided to take a closer look at the subject. It started with two cases highlighted by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) in December 2020 and January 2021. They...

Hungary opposes the EUs migration action plan: "Europes Borders Must be Protected" Posted on The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EUs top court, has ruled that Hungary violated EU law when it prevented illegal immigrants from seeking asylum. The ruling paves the way for the European Commission, the EUs powerful administrative arm, to impose financial penalties over Hungarys restrictive immigration policies. The Hungarian government has vowed that it will not bow to pressure to jump ...

December 18, 2020 03:19:31 pm The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that Hungary failed to fulfill its obligations under EU law after adopting legislation that restricts international protection offered to asylum seekers. The ruling comes after Hungary adopted legislation in 2015 that created transit zones at the Serbian-Hungarian border to apply asylum procedures and created the concept of a “crisis situation caused by mass immigration” in which derogation from general rules w...

"Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders." — Judit Varga, Hungarian Justice Minister, December 17, 2020. "While the Action Plan would give immigrants more rights and entitlements, it does not seem to take into consideration the security risks associated with mass migration." — Zoltán Kovács, spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister ...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 18th, 2020 “Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders.” — Judit Varga, Hungarian Justice Minister, December 17, 2020. “While the Action Plan would give immigrants more rights and entitlements, it does not seem to take into consideration the security ris...