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EU Readmission Agreements: Facilitating the return of irregular migrants
EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs) are based on reciprocal obligations and are concluded between the European Union and non-EU countries to facilitate the return of people residing irregularly in a country to their country of origin or to a country of transit. They operate alongside but take precedence over bilateral readmission agreements between individual EU Member States and non-EU countries. They are negotiated in a broader context where partner countries are usually granted visa facilitation ...
The Return Directive: Seeking improved implementation
Directive 2008/115/EC on common standards and procedures for returning illegally staying third-country nationals is part of the European Union's Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM). It sets out to protect returnees by establishing Schengen-wide standards and procedures for their return, based on EU and international fundamental rights and refugee-protection obligations. At the same time, it recognises the Member States' right to remove illegal stayers and safeguard their public policy ...
Asylum in the EU: Facts and Figures
Asylum is a form of international protection given by a state on its territory to someone who is threatened by persecution on grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular group or political opinion in their country of origin or residence. In the EU, this consists of refugee status as defined in the UN Geneva Refugee Convention, and subsidiary protection for persons who do not qualify as refugees but in respect of whom substantial grounds exist that the person concerned, if returned ...