Credit: Frontex Facebook pageThe European Commission announced earlier this week that the Union is adopting the first EU migration Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration of migrants who have reached European shores.The Strategy promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, a key objective under the New…
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The Commission is adopting the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration. The Strategy promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, a key objective under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. It sets out practical measures to strengthen the legal and operational framework for voluntary returns from Europe and from transit countries, improve the quality of return and reintegration programmes, establish better links with development initiatives and strengthen cooperation with partner countries
Promoting our European Way of Life Vice President Margaritis Schinas said: “The EU is building a new ecosystem on returns – looking at increasing cooperation on readmission, improving the governance framework, equipping Frontex with a new operational mandate on returns and appointing an EU Return Coordinator. Today s Strategy on voluntary returns and reintegration is another piece of that
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28 April 2021
by eub2 last modified 28 April 2021
The European Commission adopted on 27 April the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration. The Strategy promotes voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a common EU system for returns, a key objective under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
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The Commission is adopting the first EU Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration to promote voluntary return and reintegration as an integral part of a
common EU system for returns and improve the overall effectiveness of EU migration policy, key objectives under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
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