Readmission agreements or blackmail to deportations ?

CICP 21ter Rue Voltaire 75011 Paris

09.00-09.30 am Introduction : What does “readmission” mean ?

Claudia Charles, Gisti* (France)

COMMUNITY READMISSION AGREEMENTS

09.30-09.45 am How things stand ?

Chadi Sidhom, EMNHR (Euro Mediterranean Network for Human rights)

09.45-10.00 am European Parliament’s role within readmission agreements’ negotiations

Hélène Flautre, MEP Green/Europe Ecologie- Co President of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

10.00-10.15 am Ongoing negotiations : i.e. EU-Pakistan agreement

Chiara Tamburini, policy advisor of the GUE-NGL group in teh Eruopean Parliament

10.15-10.30 am Morocco case : Negotiation process’s stakes

Hicham Rachidi GADEM* (Morocco)

10 .30-10.45 am Ukraine case : consequences of an Community agreement’s signature on a transit country Sophie Baylac, Médecins Sans Frontière Italy

10 .45-11.00 am Debate

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

FROM READMISSION AGREEMENTS TO « NEW GENERATION » AGREEMENTS

11.15-11.45 am Italian case : Agreements between Italia-Tunisia and Italy- Libya

Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo,ASGI* Carmen Cordaro, ARCI* (Italia)

11.45-12.00am Spanish case : the strategy of the « African programme »

Nerea Azkona, ALBOAN and ENTRECULTURA* (Spain)

12.00-12.20 am French case : Agreements on combined managements of migration flows : « les accords de gestion concertée des flux migratoires »

Marie-Dominique Aguillon, Cimade* (France)

12.20-12.35 Refoulements on Greek and Turkish borders, in the framework of the readmission agreement between the two countries.

Clemence Durand HCA/RASP* (Turkey)

Debate

01.00-02h30 pm : Free Lunch

02.30-02.45 pm North-East agreements and Romas repatriation : Kosovo and Serbia cases

Karin Waringo, Chachipe (Luxembourg)

02.45-03.00 pm Agreements between EU member states : readmission agreement Italy-Greece and refoulement’s practice on Adriatic border

Alessandra Sciurba, MeltingPot* (Italy)

03.00-03h30 Agreements between origin and transit’s countries in Africa, refoulement’s practices beyond the scope of readmission agreements
  Mali-Mauritania’s borders

  Algeria-Mali’s borders Sara Prestianni (Migreurop)

03.30 pm-04.00 pm Debate

TOWARD MOBILIZATION : PROSPECTS

04.00-04.30 pm Examples of mobilizations which denounced readmission agreements :

  Haïti : against signature of the agreement on combined managements of migration flows with France (Emeline Sauvignet, Collectif Haïti de France)

  Mobilization before Latine America Embassies (William Herrera, Union association Latino-Américaine-France)

  Mali : against signature of the agreement on combined managements of migration flows with France , (Dicko Alassane, AME* Mali )

  Mobilization before several embassies in France in the framework of the campaign « Racket » (Ali El Baz, ATMF*)

04h30-06h00 pm Debate : Prospect of collective work and actions against readmission agreements