Invited to give their views on how to strengthen Europe’s policy on the return of irregular migrants in the EU, and to feed into the discussions of European leaders at the European Summit on 17 and 18 October, a number of interior ministers from EU countries agreed in Luxembourg on Thursday 10 October on the need to revise the current directive dating from 2008. They were also open to discussing new innovative solutions such as ‘return hubs’, proposed last May by 15 Member States...