Invited on 30 January by the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU to reflect on new and innovative ways of managing migratory flows, particularly in the context of the forthcoming new directive on the return of illegal immigrants, the EU’s home affairs ministers have not yet been able to identify any concrete measures or to give more substance to the famous concept of return centres or ‘hubs’ presented last May by some fifteen countries.
The idea would be to return people who...