The significance of their appeal has increased following the EU’s overhaul of migration rules on Monday, which adopted Denmark’s stringent migration approach as a standard for the bloc. Political groups across Europe are grappling with the surge of anti-migration parties, which have recently leveraged the issue as potent electoral fuel.
Europe’s justice and home affairs ministers have approved new policies allowing EU countries to deport unsuccessful asylum seekers, set up offshore processing centers, and establish removal hubs outside EU territory. Similarly, the U.K. reformed its asylum system in this direction last month.
About 40 of the 46 Council of Europe members are anticipated to attend a Wednesday meeting on migration in Strasbourg.
The Council of Europe — the continent’s foremost human rights body — aims to challenge the notion that the ECHR obstructs migration actions, including returns. In May, nine countries signed a letter urging that the ECHR — effective since 1953 — be reinterpreted to facilitate the expulsion of migrants who commit crimes.
“This is our chance to bring that discussion where it belongs — within the walls of the Council of Europe — and to chart a way forward,” said the organization’s leader Alain Berset to POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.
Zoya Sheftalovich contributed to this report.
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