Brussels, 30/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - To tackle illegal immigration, EU heads of state and government meeting in Brussels on Friday 30 October are seriously considering putting in place charter flights to return illegal immigrants. According to the Summit conclusions, member states call on the European Commission to examine “the possibility of regular chartering financed by FRONTEX of joint return flights”. FRONTEX is the Warsaw-based external borders agency.
The idea of EU returns was...