The Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) agreed on Wednesday 22 May to submit for approval the ‘Returns’ Directive as amended last September by the Commission to the Council of Home Affairs Ministers in Luxembourg on 7 June. They will be invited to find a partial general approach to this text that will not cover border procedures, which are dependent on a regulation in the ‘Asylum’ Package - the ‘Asylum Procedures’ Regulation - for which work is...