Not just a legislation "but the condition for regaining control of migration policy in Europe," says EPP MEP François-Xavier Bellamy
Negotiators have clinched a deal on the EU’s long-awaited returns regulation, paving the way for the creation of controversial ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc as part of a broader overhaul of deportation rules.
Under the agreement, EU countries will be able to establish return centres – facilities abroad where rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants can be transferred before deportation – provided an arrangement is in place with a host country.
The breakthrough follows weeks of negotiations that nearly collapsed last month over a dispute about when the new rules should take effect.
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