On Wednesday 14 February, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties will be asked to approve the political agreements reached in December with the EU Council regarding the Pact on Migration and Asylum (see EUROPE 13346/9). On 13 February, 81 NGOs urged them to reject these agreements.
Human Rights Watch, the International Rescue Committee, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) and Oxfam are warning elected representatives that it will have “devastating implications for the right to international protection in the EU and greenlight abuses across Europe, including racial profiling, default de facto detention and pushbacks”.
“In their bid to undermine human rights, Europe’s leaders bypassed Parliament while pushing through poorly-understood measures in a series of chaotic all-nighters before Christmas”, the NGOs wrote, calling on elected representatives to defend the “integrity” of the institution and reject the Pact.
“If this agreement is adopted, people seeking protection in the EU will become more vulnerable, the number of arrivals will not change and the chaos and lack of responsibility for accommodation and reception will continue”, say the NGOs.
Link to the appeal: https://aeur.eu/f/aty (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)