Workers’Group - Migration

Implementing the demands of the Conference on the Future of Europe

The matter of migration was addressed in the Conference on the Future of Europe, which stressed the need to fight human trafficking, improving the access to the labour market for migrants, work in countries of origin to tackle the roots of mass migration, deploying measures to ensure the security of migrants, review the Dublin Agreements on asylum and first countries, and overall approach migration and asylum from a humane perspective.

Finalise the adoption of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, for a fair, safe, sustainable, and predictable approach to asylum and migration, based on protecting the individual right to asylum ensuring safeguards of people’s rights, high standards of protections and solidarity between Member States, particularly in the form of relocation. We will monitor its implementation at national and EU level.

Understanding integration as a bidirectional process that affects and involves both the host society and the group of arrival, with decent work as the main factor for integration and equal rights as a mechanism for incorporation.

There is a need for developing a common European legal migration and asylum framework system which is mandatory, safe and effective, and ensures all Member States respect international human rights law. Public services dealing with asylum particularly in the EU border Member States should be sufficiently staffed and trained and their accountability mechanisms should also be improved.
Regarding asylum, there is a need to address arbitrary handling of asylum criteria, illegal detention at borders and forced return even to states where the refugees risk serious harm or persecution.
The need to implement effective search and rescue systems in European seas, with cooperation mechanisms between Member States for the management of rescues operated by private vessels.
Promote the need to tackle climate change-induced migration.
Push for major public information campaigns based on empirical evidence to explain the critical prerequisite for inward migration and to challenge the prevalence of misconceptions.
Targeted measures to fully reflect the gender dimension of migration and the vulnerable position of unaccompanied minors and children.