11/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Michele Nicoletti and Tineke Strik welcomed the latest proposals to reform EU asylum policy, whilst calling on Monday’s meeting of the EU justice and home affairs council to prioritise protection of migrants' human rights.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The present refugee crisis has demonstrated the inadequacy of the current political and institutional instruments including the Dublin Regulation on which the asylum policies of the European Union are based.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Dublin system, the EU’s legal instrument for identifying the country responsible for examining individual asylum applications, “has collapsed and must be reformed as a matter of urgency”, has concluded the committee.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A coherent overall EU migration policy should involve both countries of origin and transit, respecting human rights and avoiding a narrow emphasis on border control and security, PACE Committee on Migration said today.
27/08/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Michele Nicoletti today expressed his welcome for the German government’s announcement that it will stop sending Syrian asylum seekers back to the country through which they first entered the EU.
21/08/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Daphné Dumery will be visiting the headquarters of Frontex, the EU’s border agency, in Warsaw on 28 August, in the context of her report on “The Mediterranean Sea: a front door to irregular migration”.
16/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At its meeting on 3 June, the committee was informed that Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of FRONTEX, had declined the invitation for an exchange of views on the challenges with regard to irregular migration across the Mediterranean Sea.
09/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik, rapporteur on “Countries of transit: meeting new migration and asylum challenges” on behalf of PACE Migration Committee, will make a fact-finding visit to Morocco from 9 to 10 June.
03/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee, meeting in Bishkek, is concerned by the growing number of cases of missing persons reported in the areas of military action in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as well as in Crimea.
19/05/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Irakli Chikovani will be visiting Rome on 20 May, in the context of the preparation of his report on the involvement of organised crime in migrants’ smuggling and exploitation.
15/05/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A delegation of four members of the Assembly's Committee on Migration, together with two Dutch senators, is to make a visit on 18 May to the Schipol Detention Centre, where irregular migrants are held.
27/04/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“The increase in the Chinese population in Europe raises human rights concerns with regard notbly to trafficking and smuggling rings and the lack of legal protection,” notes the committee.