SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration

Return sponsorships provided in Pact is “not the solution we need”, says Tineke Strik

Brussels, 16/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

Tineke Strik (Greens/EFA, Netherlands) is the European Parliament rapporteur on the Returns Directive amended in 2018 (see EUROPE B12258A1). While return policy has taken on a major dimension in the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’, she explains the difficulty of combining the different texts and says in passing what she thinks of ‘return sponsorships’, a new avenue of solidarity which she believes is doomed to fail. (Interview by Solenn Paulic)

 

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