Negotiations between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on the recast of the regulation on the return of irregular migrants finally resulted in a final agreement on Monday, June 1. To break the deadlock over the entry into force of the text, the co-legislators opted for a “backloading” strategy, which involves immediately applying certain priority provisions and deferring the others to a later date (EUROPE B13872A11).
The final list of directly applicable articles stems...