Dutch MEP Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA) presented her report on the implementation of the 2008 Returns Directive to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties on Thursday 2 July and identified a series of shortcomings that she believes the Pact on Asylum and Migration should correct.
On the basis of an EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service) study in a few Member States (including France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain), she first deplored the fact that the Commission...