Info sheets

EuroMed Rights, together with its members and partners, ARCI, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, CNCD-11.11.11, Foundation for the Promotion of Rights (Algeria), the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), KISA, La Cimade, LDH France, and Migreurop, publish two infosheets on the EU proposal for a regulation that will revise the EU return system (so-called Return Regulation), replacing the 2008 Return Directive, highlighting its adverse impact and risks of human rights violations.
The publication follows the (…)

Transnational Action Day against the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

10 April 2025 - Nothing to celebrate!
Everywhere, the same logics of oppression are strangling us. From Belgrade to Athens, from Rome to Brussels, governments stifle the most precarious, destroy solidarity and oppress those who refuse to bow down. They impose a world where survival is a daily struggle, where borders kill and where people are criminalized.
On 10 April 2024, the EU Parliament adopted the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum despite the fierce opposition of many of us. The Pact (…)

Joint press release

Migreurop joins the concerns expressed by civil society organisations regarding the EU’s new approach on deportations, in a joint press release initiated by EuroMed Rights.
As the European Commission (EC) unveils its so-called “new common approach on returns” today, 11 March, aimed at speeding up returns to countries of origin and transit, the undersigned civil society organisations (CSOs) raise concerns about the human rights implications that these proposals would entail.
Problems (…)

Inter-associative open letter to the European Commission

Madam President, Mr. Commissioner,
The European Pact on Migration and Asylum was adopted by the European Parliament on April 10, 2024. As outlined in your communication of June 12, 2024, each Member State is expected to involve and consult “social partners (…) and representatives of civil society organizations” and to submit, no later than December 12, 2024, its own national implementation plan specifying the actions and timeline.
Several associations in Belgium, Cyprus, Spain, France, (…)

Joint Statement

Despite repeated warnings from Civil Society Organisations, EU lawmakers have reached an agreement on the Schengen Borders Code reform which will be voted on in a Plenary session this week. The legislative file that has emerged from negotiations between the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and Commission will have devastating consequences for people in migration and racialised communities.
We call on MEPs in the Plenary vote to reject the Schengen (…)