Europe Too many violations of fundamental rights in the EU, MEPs say

11 Jan 2009 |

Extract from the press release: (…) “Rather than focusing all their efforts on preventing illegal immigration”, which led to “deploying a growing range of frontier checks” MEPs say, EU institutions and Member States should introduce “effective, long term and legal migration policies” and “more flexible and coordinated rules” for asylum seekers. The Parliament also condemns “the lack of effective integration policies”, causing “the exclusion of hundreds of thousands of non-nationals”, putting them “in a vulnerable position, opening the way to radicalisation, trafficking and other forms of exploitation”. (…)

Source : European Parliament