The European Commission on Tuesday 27 April called on Frontex to carry out more so-called ‘voluntary’ return operations and to train its staff more for this purpose, in a new ‘Strategy on the voluntary return and reintegration of irregular migrants’.
This is the first ‘strategy’ on the ‘voluntary’ aspects of returns, which only relies, besides Frontex, on the networks of return counsellors (to persuade migrants who cannot stay in the EU) and on better use of existing EU...