The protection of unaccompanied migrant minors in Europe (own-initiative opinion) - Related Opinions
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Adotados on 24/02/2021
Referência:
SOC/669-EESC-2020-05705Referral:
COM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 613 final 2020/0277 CODRapporteur:
The EESC stresses that ensuring balance in dealing with asylum applications should not have to be the responsibility of individual Member States alone, but should be managed by the EU as a whole. It recognises the importance of the proposals having the legal status of a regulation – as opposed to a Directive. The EESC is pleased that the regulations invoke the principles of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, but this burden is not sufficiently balanced. Solidarity needs to be binding, in the form of mandatory relocations.
Adotados on 24/02/2021
Referência:
SOC/670-EESC-2020Referral:
COM(2020) 611 final 2016/0224 CODCOM(2020) 612 final 2020/0278 CODCOM(2020) 612 final 2020/0278 CODCOM(2020) 614 final 2016/0132 CODCOM(2020) 614 final 2016/0132 CODRapporteur:
Panagiotis GKOFAS (Greece)
This opinion will focus on three of the nine instruments contained in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum released by the European Commission in November 2020. The opinion deals with: i) the new screening regulation; ii) the amended proposal revising the asylum procedures regulation; iii) the amended proposal for a recast Eurodac regulation.
Adotados on 27/01/2021
Referência:
SOC/649-EESC-2020Rapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Romania)
In this opinion, the EESC stresses that the EU needs to strike the right balance between effective and realistic migration management that is humane and sustainable, while ensuring security and control of its external borders. It must send a clear message that migration can be better managed collectively. It notes that the proposals accompanying the PMA are important but insufficient for the development of the common European framework for migration management, which would be both effective and in line with the EU's values and objectives.
Adotados on 25/09/2019
Referência:
SOC/615-EESC-2019-01355Rapporteur:
The EESC notes that the Global Compact is a non-binding instrument that does not create new obligations for EU Member States and its content is fully in line with the principles and values of the European Union, most notably Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, which includes – as its main values – respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. The EESC therefore regrets the fact that the Compact has not been approved by all Member States and recommends that the EU clarify and build on the Compact's objectives using appropriate mechanisms.
Adotados on 23/01/2019
Referência:
SOC/608-EESC-2018Rapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Vladimíra DRBALOVÁ (Czech Republic)
The EESC welcomes the Commission's efforts to speed up returns, but regrets that the recast was not supported by an impact assessment and/or public consultation on the existing Directive 2008/115/EC.
The EESC believes that an effective returns policy should be part of a truly common policy and legislation for legal migration and for asylum, which is currently missing, giving the impression that the EU adopts a purely security and policing-focused vision of migration as a criminal matter. Such a comprehensive common EU migration policy would also be the best answer to the extreme right-wing and nationalist discourse on migration.
The EESC welcomes the Commission's efforts to making the return procedure quicker and more efficient. Even so, consideration should be given to how realistic the proposed time-scales are and an assessment made of the obstacles that could frustrate this intention.
Adotados on 25/01/2017
Referência:
SOC/548-EESC-2016-05234-00-00-acReferral:
COM(2016) 468 final 2016/0225 CODRapporteur:
Christian MOOS (Germany)
The Committee supports the European Commission proposal for the creation of a Union Resettlement Framework and calls for a genuine common asylum policy that respects European values. It calls for the common criteria for resettlement to focus on people's need for protection, not on the third country's effective cooperation on asylum and it considers the "first country of asylum" and "safe third country" concepts to be open to question due to the current unsafe and unstable situation in the third countries and regions concerned. The Committee calls for the resettlement programme to be uncoupled from partnership agreements that aim to encourage third countries to prevent refugees from fleeing, as this carries the risk of infringing international law and fundamental rights.
Adotados on 14/12/2016
Referência:
SOC/547-EESC-2016-04410-00-00-acReferral:
COM(2016) 465 final 2016/0222 CODCOM(2016) 466 final 2016/0223 CODCOM(2016) 466 final 2016/0223 CODCOM(2016) 467 final 2016/0224 CODCOM(2016) 467 final 2016/0224 CODCOM(2016) 467 final 2016/0224 CODRapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Romania)
In this opinion the EESC supports further harmonisation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and welcomes the proposed improvements. However, it is concerned about some limitations of fundamental rights of asylum seekers. It sets out specific recommendations on the three proposals for: the Qualification Regulation, the Common Procedure Regulation and the Standards of Reception Directive, taking into account the human rights perspective, in line with the opinion on CEAS Reform I.
Adotados on 19/10/2016
Referência:
SOC/543-EESC-2016-02981-00-00-acReferral:
COM(2016) 270 final 2016/0133 CODCOM(2016) 271 final 2016/0131 CODCOM(2016) 271 final 2016/0131 CODCOM(2016) 272 final 2016/0132 CODRapporteur:
An efficient reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is essential. While the EESC approves of the proposal to improve and speed up the determination of Member State responsible for examining an asylum application, it calls for including protective provisions on procedural issues, individual treatment of applications, maintenance of discretionary clauses, maintenance of the deadline for the cessation of obligation for a Member State to assume responsibility and the rights of applicants.
Adotados on 15/10/2014
Referência:
SOC/515-EESC-2014-4595Referral:
COM(2014) 382 finalRapporteur:
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Oct 15, 2014 Oct 16, 2014
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