24/11/2011
COMECE Reflection on the EU Roma Framework (EN)
Category Archives: Migration & Asylum
Migration and asylum are human rights issues. Frequently, individuals and families leave their places of origin or residence seeking an improvement in their living conditions or simply fleeing violence or war.
The current scale of the phenomenon at the EU borders is worrying, as are the tragedies and deaths that result from the desperation of migrants, many of them victims of criminal activities of smugglers and traffickers. Integration of migrants and asylum seekers is also a challenge.
The COMECE Secretariat works for the rights of migrants, refugees and hosting societies to be harmonised and respected in the EU for the sake of the common good in the Christian spirit of welcoming the stranger.
COMECE is assisted in this mission by a Working Group on Migration and Asylum.
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Roma Inclusion: a Need, a Challenge and a Duty
This was the topic of the Dialogue Seminar which took place this 27 June at the European Commission. About 12 million Roma live throughout Europe today. To foster their inclusion, the EU recently adopted an EU framework for national Roma integration strategies up to 2020. Churches welcomed the adoption of this framework, especially as it looks beyond the current EU and considers support to enlargement … Continue reading
01/06/2010
Comments on the proposed recasts of Directive 2004.83.EC (Qualification Directive) and Directive 2005.85.EC (Asylum procedures Directive) (EN)
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)
30/11/2006
Policy Priorities in the fight against illegal immigration of third-country nationals [COM (2006) 402 FINAL] (EN)
01/05/2006
Migration and development – Some concrete orientations [COM (2005) 390 FINAL] (EN)
01/04/2006
A common agenda for integration framework for the integration of third-country nationals in the EU [COM (2005) 389 FINAL] (EN)
01/03/2006
EC proposal for a directive on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals [COM (2005) 391] (EN)
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The EU must respect the human rights it espouses in its migration and asylum policy
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
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Concerns regarding the implementation of the Action Plan of the Hague Programme
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