CCME

Fear of a trend towards collective expulsion.¹

points to the difficulty of talking of “voluntary” return when migrant is faced with the threat of deportation.²

condemns the idea of a re-entry ban.³

condemns the way that the directive allows the detention of minors.⁴

1Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, “Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals COM (2005) 391” Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe Homepage available online at www.ccme.be [Accessed September 10 2008] 2.

2Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, “Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals COM (2005) 391” Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe Homepage available online at www.ccme.be [Accessed September 10 2008]4.

3Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, “Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals COM (2005) 391” Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe Homepage available online at www.ccme.be [Accessed September 10 2008]5–6.

4Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, “Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals COM (2005) 391” Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe Homepage available online at www.ccme.be [Accessed September 10 2008] 9.