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EU: Council of the European Union: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 8-9 October 2015
09 October 2015
See:
Final Press release: 8-9 October 2015 (pdf)
"B" Points agenda (for discussion, including some non-legislative items),
"A" Points - legislative (adopted without discussion, pdf) and
"A" Points -non-legislative (adopted without discussion, pdf) and see:
Background Note (9 pages, pdf)
Agreed:
Council conclusions on the future of the return policy (pdf)
See: Director of IOM:
Swing Asks EU to Respect Rights of Vulnerable Migrants Arriving on its Shores (to be delivered later today at a high level EU conference in Luxembourg on refugees and migration flows through the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans, link):
"Mr Swing underscored that care needed to be taken when dealing with asylum seekers who do not neatly fit into the category of refugees. “Many of those on the move defy easy categorization. Many will be covered by the 1951 Refugee Convention and many others will not. But it is too simplistic to conclude that all of them fall into a single broad category of “economic migrants,” he said.
“I am speaking of a wide range of vulnerable migrants - families with children; persons seeking to re-unite with their families already in Europe; unaccompanied and separated children; victims of trafficking; single and pregnant women, the elderly, the sick and the injured. The majority are coming from countries facing great strife, abject poverty or simply, hopelessness,” he noted."
and
Migrant crisis: EU considers faster deportations (BBC News, link) also:
EU to step up deportation of economic migrants (euractiv, link):
"European Union governments are set to agree today (8 October) to accelerate the repatriation of illegal immigrants among the hundreds of thousands who have failed to win asylum, as they try to cope with a surge in refugees from war-torn Syria. Diplomats say interior ministers meeting in Luxembourg should agree, among other things, to back the detention of those who may abscond before expulsion and exert more pressure on African and other poor states, including via aid budgets, to make them accept the return of citizens refused entry to Europe."