05/03/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Migration Committee is due to approve on 10 March, in Paris, a report on “a European migration observatory/agency” – due for debate in the Assembly’s April session – and one on “the situation of refugees and displaced persons in the Russian Federation and other selected CIS countries”, both by Tadeusz Iwiński (Poland, SOC). The committee may also approve a report on “human mobility and the right to family reunion” by Rosmarie Zapfl-Helbling (Switzerland, EPP/CD). A new ad hoc sub-committee on the humanitarian situation of displaced persons in Chechnya meets for the first time to consider its work programme – including the possible co-organising, in co-operation with the Russian State Duma and Federation Council, of a Round Table on this subject. The Sub-Committees on Refugees, on Migration and on Population also meet to elect their chairs and to consider their future work.
29/01/2004 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The European Population Committee will today present (2 p.m.) to the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population its Demographic Yearbook 2002-2003 covering all 45 member states and one European non-member country (Belarus). According to the yearbook, in all European countries, except Turkey, the total fertility rate is currently below replacement level. It shows a widespread decline in the number of marriages and the appearance of other forms of union, particularly cohabitation.