A proposal for the "development of return hubs" is expected to be included when the EU's new Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner presents his promised package on March 11 to get more deportees to leave the EU, reports the news site Euronews.
The idea is that EU countries should be able to send people who do not have the right to stay to joint camps outside the EU, pending their deportation to their home countries or other safe locations.
However, EU law and rights must apply in the camps, emphasizes the EU's own agency for fundamental rights, FRA, in a fresh report on Thursday. Everyone placed in the camps must have had the opportunity to appeal their deportations, clear agreements must be written with host countries, and children should "never" be sent to the camps.
"The planned return hubs must not be turned into lawless zones. They are only compatible with EU law if there are robust and effective guarantees for fundamental rights," writes FRA Director Sirpa Rautio in a press release.
