Austrian Magnus Brunner, candidate for the post of European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, who will be heard on 5 November by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE), will confirm Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment to strengthening the EU’s tools on return policy, according to the answers given to MEPs on Tuesday 22 October.
In his answers, he says that he will be presenting a new ‘Returns’ Directive to “speed up and simplify returns, defining...