At the plenary session on Wednesday 12 November, MEPs gave a lukewarm response to the European Commission’s first report launching the Annual Migration Management Cycle under the Pact on Migration and Asylum (see related article).
While the EPP and ECR groups have welcomed this as a good step – albeit an insufficient one that needs to be supplemented by rapid agreements pertaining to regulations on the return of illegal immigrants and the concepts of ‘safe third countries’ and...