worldwide including some within the EU. It puts particular focus on the financial sustainability of EU Centres (in Chapter 13 …), because of Council Directive 2003/9/EC on minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers in EU member states, and in … view of the possible phasing out of EU financial support from 2010. The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights …

The return of illegally-staying third-country nationals is one of the main pillars of the EU’s policy on migration and … asylum. However, recent Eurostat data show that return rates at EU level have not improved despite the important increase in … the number of rejected asylum applications and in the number of return decisions issued since 2014. In its 2015 EU Action …