Adopted without prior Impact Assessments required under the EU Better Regulation framework, the European Commission’s Returns and Safe Countries Proposals mark a significant shift in EU migration and asylum law towards a deportation-centred model that prioritises penalisation, intergovernmentalism and externalisation over current EU legal standards in primary and secondary law, including fundamental rights, proportionality and the rule of law. This study provides an independent assessment of the Proposals on the Return Regulation, Safe Countries of Origin and Safe Third Countries.
This study was prepared at the request of The Left in the European Parliament and was first published here. The views are attributable only to the authors in a personal capacity.
