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Integration of refugees: COMECE discusses with MEP

The EU needs to apply a more holistic approach to the integration of refugees. This was the outcome of the dialogue COMECE organised with Thomas Mann (EPP), member of the EU Parliament, and several Catholic organisations.

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Drawing from their own experiences, Caritas Europa and the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe stressed that welcoming refugees has to go hand-in-hand with orientation courses, language assistance and psycho-social support. ‘The latest Caritas Europa publication Welcome – Migrants Make Europe Stronger provides some best practices on integration measures that Caritas successfully applied across Europe’, said Jorge Nuño Mayer, the Secretary General of Caritas Europa.

MEP Thomas Mann has been the European People’s Party’s shadow rapporteur of the Resolution on refugees – social inclusion and integration into the labour market. The report of the European Parliament advocates to quickly integrate refugees into the labour market and calls on the European Union and its Member States to complete the establishment of a consistent Common European Asylum System.