Fortress Europe (link) and AI & ECRE: Press release (pdf) See also: FIDH: Proposal for a “returns” Directive: The FIDH calls for the suspension of the text’s adoption until it conforms to Member States international
Fortress Europe (link) and AI & ECRE: Press release (pdf) See also: FIDH: Proposal for a “returns” Directive: The FIDH calls for the suspension of the text’s adoption until it conforms to Member States international human rights obligations (pdf) and GUE group in the European Parliament: Press release (link, pdf)
Statewatch Supplementary Analysis: The EU’s Returns Directive by Professor Steve Peers, University of Essex who concludes: “The EP and the Council have to decide whether their endlessly-repeated support for the principles of fairness, human rights and human dignity is a genuine commitment, or simply empty rhetoric.”
“Against the outrageous Directive!”, full-text of speech given by Yasha Maccanico (Statewatch) at the hearing with NGOs organised by the GUE group, European Parliament, Strasbourg on 12 December 2007 (pdf) and Fortress Europe (link) and Migreurop (link)