03/09/2018 (Agence Europe) – Ahead of the integration, migration and expulsion working group meeting at the Council on Tuesday 4 September, the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) provided a warning in a press release against any further attempts to outsource the processing of asylum seekers' requests to third countries, particularly in North Africa. This meeting will particularly focus on the Commission proposal on the controlled centres and debarkation platforms (see EUROPE 12067). The unions consider that the Commission document has “frozen” the fundamental right to obtain international protection and trivialises “inhumane practices” against migrants. It also considers that this approach runs counter to strengthening cooperation in the Mediterranean rim as sought by the Commission of Human Rights at the UN(CHR). (PH)