In a statement issued on Monday – on the first day of the Council of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Luxembourg – Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, called on the European Union to “to steer migration policy on to a more humane and human rights compliant path”.
“The welcome introduction of a disembarkation and relocation mechanism must not result in the expansion of Member States’ actions that may lead to the return of...