FEANTSA Statement on the Returns Regulation in view of trilogues

FEANTSA strongly regrets the European Parliament’s decision to enter negotiations on the Returns Regulation with a compromised version of the proposal which weakens fundamental rights safeguards and reinforces a punitive, criminalising approach to migration. The adopted text expands deportation measures through more coercive, large-scale removal mechanisms. It enables Member States to establish deportation centres outside the EU, tightens cooperation requirements, and expands the grounds for detention to a new precedent.