One week after the European summit, Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Thursday 5 July for member states to put human rights at the heart of their migration and asylum policies (see EUROPE 12051 and 12052).
“European states’ current approach to the arrivals of refugees and migrants has transformed a manageable issue into an extremely divisive topic, in particular within EU member states”, she writes before going on immediately to...