COMECE Warns EU's June 17 Return Regulation Risks Migrants' Rights

3 articles · Updated · ewtnnews.com · Jun 18

Bishop Mariano Crociata, speaking for COMECE, said the EU's new Return Regulation raises “deep concern” because it could weaken protections for irregular migrants and other vulnerable people.
The criticism centers on 3 elements in the measure approved June 17 by the European Parliament: longer detention, limits on legal remedies, and greater outsourcing of responsibilities to third countries.
Crociata said migration policy must treat people as bearers of “inviolable dignity,” arguing that security, border control and anti-trafficking efforts should advance together with solidarity and asylum protections.
The intervention casts the vote as a wider test of what kind of Europe the bloc wants to build, urging member states to uphold founding values while also addressing war, persecution, poverty and environmental collapse that drive migration.