The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU wants to sound out the Member States on how to strengthen the EU’s external migration policy, in particular on the issue of visas and the policy practised by certain Western Balkan countries, how to substantially strengthen returns to countries of origin, and how to combat the instrumentalisation of migration and the means available to the EU to anticipate migratory flows, according to a discussion note dated 28 September in order to prepare...