UK backs European plan to accelerate illegal migration removals
Summary
The UK and 45 other European countries have signed an agreement aimed at speeding up the removal of illegal migrants by urging courts to give more power to member states in migration cases. The deal asks the European Court of Human Rights to consider public interest and democracy more when ruling on these cases, while still banning torture and extreme mistreatment.Key Facts
- The agreement was signed by 46 members of the Council of Europe at a summit in Moldova.
- It calls for the European Court of Human Rights to leave most migration decisions to individual countries.
- The deal is a political signal, not a legal rewrite, pushing for faster deportations of illegal migrants.
- The Council of Europe is a political body overseeing human rights rights separate from the European Union.
- The countries say they have the right to control immigration and remove foreign nationals for public interest.
- The agreement mentions that migration pressures have changed since the human rights rules were made after World War II.
- The deal warns against people smuggling and hostile states using migration to weaken European democracies.
- It emphasizes that banning deportation only applies in cases of torture or extreme inhuman treatment, not for below-European hospital or social standards.
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