Statewatch | Short-sighted Commission consultation on plan against migrant smuggling
The European Commission recently launched a consultation on the EU action plan against migrant smuggling (2021-2025). However, its plans to prepare and publish the new plan did not involve a thorough evaluation of actions to date, and its questions for contributors "are clearly geared towards legitimising a pre-determined set of actions". Statewatch's submission called for public debate about the root causes of migrant smuffling and the impact, legitimacy and effectiveness of EU action taken to