🚷 🇪🇺 🗳 The European Parliament has formally voted to approve the new Return Regulation, replacing the 2008 Return Directive.

✅418 in favour
⛔️218 against
⬜️30 abstained

What’s in it?

• Return hubs for deportations

• Powers to search migrants’ residences and other relevant premises

• Detention periods extended from 6 months to up to 2 years, with longer detention for security-risk cases

• Entry bans increased from 5 to 10 years, with possible lifetime bans for security-risk cases

• Automatic suspension of deportations during appeals removed; courts decide case by case whether returns are paused

📎 European Con