A delegation of MEPs, led by the British Linda McAvan (S&D), will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Migration on 10-11 December in Marrakesh, where the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, concluded last July, is to be endorsed.
In a climate of growing hostility to the Pact (see EUROPE 12149), Ms McAvan, who chairs the European Parliament Development Committee, castigated on Thursday 6 December the decision of some EU Member States to turn their backs on this...