On Friday 23 April members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) Frontex enquiry group discussed international and maritime law and the rights that should be granted to people who have been subject to so-called ‘pushbacks’, against the backdrop of the March 2016 EU-Turkey agreement, which requires Turkey to curb departures to the EU.
Is an asylum application filed at sea in this context by the migrant valid? MEPs would like more clarification on these...