Following the political agreement reached by the co-legislators on the Return Regulation on 1 June 2026, the MORE Horizon Europe project recalls key findings from its ongoing research on return and readmission.
MORE’s evidence shows that EU return policy cannot be assessed through removal rates, deterrence or enforcement capacity. It must account for the documented harms of detention and deportation, the limits of coercive approaches, the risks linked to the externalisation of return procedures, and the availability of less harmful, more proportionate and rights-compliant alternatives.
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