THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF MIGRATION POLICY
Towards a Common European Migration Policy
All Member States agreed that a new approach to managing migration is needed. As they are all affected by immigration flows they reached a consensus to build up a common immigration policy at EU level. The approach agreed in Tampere in 1999 was confirmed in 2004 with the adoption of The Hague programme, which sets the objectives for strengthening freedom, security and justice in the EU for the period 2005-2010.
European Commission
- The Hague Programme: Ten priorities for the next five years. Communication from the commission to the council and the european parliament
- European Commissions’ Communication on Migration and Development: Some concrete orientations - COM (2005) 390 final, to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
- European Commissions’ Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on a Community Immigration Policy – COM (2000) 757
- Commission Staff Working accompanying the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Towards a Common Immigration Policy, Interim progress report on the Global Approach to Migration – COM(2007) 780 final
- Communication from the Commission to the Council on the monitoring and evaluation mechanism of the third countries in the field of the fight against illegal immigration, 2005
- European Commission on The demographic future of Europe – from challenge to opportunity, 2006