30/05/2008
EP vote on the proposed Directive on Common Standards and Procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (EN)
The Catholic Church in the European Union
Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union
In light of the flagrant human rights abuses at Ceuta and Melilla, six Churches and Christian organisations have written to the Justice and Home Affairs Council, which meets on 12 October, to demand that the European Union lives up to the rhetoric it espouses on human rights and concretises them within its migration and asylum policy. In this letter these six organisations working in the … Continue reading
Six Church and Christian organisations working in the field of migration and asylum today sent a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Council, highlighting concerns regarding the implementation of the Action Plan of the Hague Programme which is due to be endorsed at the European Council meeting from 16-17 June in Brussels. These six organisations – Caritas Europa, the Commission of the Bishops’ … Continue reading
Churches and Church-linked organisations call upon the EU to incorporate the ‘Essential Elements for Migration Policy’ advocated in the document ‘Integrating Migrants – Integrating Societies’, ahead of International Migrants’ Day on 18 December 2004. The organisations – Caritas Europa, the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), the Secretariat of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), the International Catholic Migration Commission, … Continue reading