Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties gave a mixed reception on Thursday 2 September to the alternative impact assessment carried out by Parliament’s Research Service, EPRS, on the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ presented by the Commission in September 2020.
While some MEPs asked the EPRS to further justify some of the criticisms, others saw the study as confirming their concerns, particularly those relating to the excessive use of detention of people...