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Tag Archives: Justice and Home Affairs,Immigration policy
Syrian refugees: Greece must comply with international obligations
Cecilia Wikstrom MEP, the Coordinator for the ALDE Group on the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee, has today warned Greece that it must comply with its international obligations to accept and process asylum applications from the increasing number of Syrian refugees who are risking their lives to reach Europe.
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Verhofstadt condemns Le Pen’s racist remarks
Last night at an election rally in Marseille, Jean Marie Le Pen suggested that immigration could be “solved by Monseigneur Ebola within three months”, referring to the deadly virus that has caused many deaths in West Africa.
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Free movement for corporate employees is good for business
After more than two years of negotiations, tonight the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Employment Committees are expected to confirm the first reading agreement reached last 25 February with the Council on the intra-corporate transfers (ICTs) Directive, allowing non-EU skilled employees working for multinational companies, (namely managers, specialists or graduate trainees), to be more easily moved to EU branches or subsidiaries.
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Europe’s openness to foreign talent benefits growth
The European Parliament signed off today ALDE MEP Cecilia Wikström’s (Folkpartiet, Sweden) report improving rules and conditions for third country nationals who come to Europe for research, studying, paid or unpaid traineeships, to work as a volunteer or as au-pair.
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Swiss vote – EU must address consequences
Yesterday by the narrowest of margins (50.3%), the Swiss people backed a referendum proposed by the Swiss People’s party asking to cap the number of migrants, including from EU countries.
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Improving access of third country nationals to seasonal work in the EU
After years of controversies, the Seasonal Workers Directive has been finally adopted today by the European Parliament and will be transposed into national laws within 30 months from its publication in the EU official Journal. This Direct…
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EU rules on rescue at sea: no more time to quibble while migrants drown
Tonight the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee adopted a regulation establishing rules for improving the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operations coordinated by the Frontex Agency with the aim of …
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ALDE proposal for an EU humanitarian Conference on Syrian refugee crisis
Ahead of tomorrow’s debate, proposed by the ALDE group, on the EU and Member States measures to tackle the flow of refugees as a result of the conflict in Syria, ALDE Group President Guy Verhofstadt outlined our objectives and expectation…
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Lampedusa: Another avoidable tragedy
“Too many lives were lost once again in the water of Lampedusa. Deploring these events alone will simply not prevent them from happening. Only a better coordination and solidarity between Member States can stop the Mediterranean Sea conti…
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Asylum package: A step towards increased solidarity and responsibility
Today the European Parliament adopted several pieces of legislation which will mark a step towards completing and improving the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) – due to have been completed by 2012 following the Stockholm programme – …
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