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Europe ministers meet on migration 'challenges' to rights convention
Ministers aim to modernize European Convention on Human Rights amid concerns it hinders migration enforcement, with 46 member states seeking consensus on irregular migration rules.
- On Wednesday, ministers from the Council of Europe met in Strasbourg to address migration concerns and reaffirm commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.
- Several governments argue the convention limits migration control as some member states say the article on right to private and family life blocks removals, and in May nine EU states urged a rethink.
- Alain Berset said the convention is a `living instrument` and noted the European Court of Human Rights issued rulings against Italy and Britain’s Rwanda deportation plan.
- UK Justice Minister David Lammy urged ministers to reach consensus in the coming weeks, emphasizing the need to work together on interpreting irregular migration rules.
- Rewriting interpretation could shift national removal practices across Europe, as emergency injunctions and past ECHR rulings have halted deportations in 46 Council of Europe member states.
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Work will begin to adopt the declaration in Moldova in May 2026 following a meeting of ministers in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Ministers of 46 member states signed up to European human rights laws have backed plans to look at how to tackle concerns over addressing migration within the legal framework. The chief of the body which oversees the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) said ministers had taken an “important first step forward togeth…
On Wednesday, ministers from the member states of the Council of Europe took the first formal step towards reviewing the European Court of Human Rights's (ECHR) approach to interpreting migration legislation.
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