04/10/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur on 'Lives lost in the Mediterranean', today called for an investigation into allegations that fishing or other boats failed to go to the rescue of drowning persons off the island of Lampedusa.
02/10/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Italy has shown once again that it is "ill-prepared" for a new surge of mixed migration on its coasts, according to a draft report just out from PACE’s Migration Committee.
30/08/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, Tineke Strik (Netherlands, SOC), Vice-Chairperson for the Migration Committee, stressed the importance of speeding up the solution to the problem of missing persons...
21/08/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Jean-Marie Bockel (France, EPP/CD), who is preparing a PACE report on international assistance for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, today begins a fact-finding visit to Turkey (21 to 22 August 2013)...
19/06/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“The drastic situation of the Syrian refugees is worsening and has reached an unprecedented level of suffering. A million and a half Syrians have fled their country; it is an humanitarian disaster", Jean-Claude Mignon said.
04/06/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“The fundamental dilemma for Europe is the extent to which integration tests for migrants promote integration and the point at which they become a barrier and actually begin to inhibit it", Tineke Strik said.
04/06/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At a hearing on the resettlement of refugees, Eric Voruz, rapporteur on the subject, called for increased solidarity between European countries. "We must all be more supportive towards countries such as Malta", he said.
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The participants in the conference held in Rabat on 4 and 5 April welcomed the commitment by the Moroccan government to address the challenge represented by migration policy, in a spirit of regional solidarity.
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Adopting the report by Mikael Cederbratt (Sweden, EPP/CD) yesterday in Rabat, the PACE Migration Committee has recommended that Frontex improve respect and protection of human rights at European borders. This European Union agency’s task is to co-ordinate EU member States’ actions relating to the management and control of the EU’s external borders.
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Migration Committee, meeting yesterday in Rabat, considers that much more needs to be done in the spirit of international co-operation and burden-sharing by the EU and its member states to assist the countries beyond their eastern borders to deal with migratory pressures.
02/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons will organise in Rabat on 4-5 April 2013, in co-operation with the Moroccan Parliament, a conference on the theme “How can Morocco and Europe face up to the challenges and opportunities in the field of South-North migration?”.
17/01/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, together with a PACE sub-committee visiting Greece, have urged greater European solidarity to help Greece deal with large numbers of irregular migrants and asylum seekers entering the country.