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Assistance to Syrian refugees: after Lebanon, PACE rapporteur continues visit to Turkey

21/08/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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)...

On World Refugee Day, PACE President deplores ‘unprecedented’ suffering of Syrian refugees

19/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

“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.

Integration tests for migrants should not become a barrier and lead to exclusion

04/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

“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.

Resettlement of refugees just a drop in the ocean

04/06/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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.

Moroccan government committed to addressing migration challenges

05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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.

Frontex needs to improve the protection of human rights at European borders

05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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.

The EU and its member states need to assist the countries beyond their eastern borders more to deal with...

05/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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.

PACE committee to look at migration between Morocco and European countries

02/04/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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?”.

Following visit to Greece, PACE delegation urges greater European solidarity in handling flows of irregular...

17/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

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.

PACE round table in Budapest: “Unaccompanied migrant children: what rights at 18?”

11/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

In the context of the preparation of the report by Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) on “Unaccompanied migrant children: what rights at 18?”, PACE Committee on Migration is to hold a hearing on 14 January at the European Youth Centre (EYC) in Budapest, in the presence, amongst others, of the rapporteur and of young migrants as well as representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and of the EYC’s decision-making bodies.

Migration on Europe's Southern shores: PACE sub-committee makes a visit to the Greek-Turkish border

11/01/2013 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

The members of PACE Ad hoc Sub-Committee on the large-scale arrival of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees on Europe's Southern shores, accompanied for part of the visit by PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, will make a fact-finding visit to Greece from 14 to 16 January.

Tribute to all those who have helped save lives in the Mediterranean

18/12/2012 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

“There are many faces that do not reach the limelight. Father Zerai’s is one of them,” said Giacomo Santini (Italy, EPP/CD), Chair of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, on International Migrants Day.