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EU Parliament: plenary session discussing rights of European citizens in the UK and missing migrant children

Il Parlamento europeo riunito in plenaria nella sede di Bruxelles (Foto SIR/PE)

(Brussels) A very busy plenary session will be awaiting the European Parliament in Brussels today and tomorrow. The MEPs will be discussing the topics (priority measures for growth, single market, security, migration) that will be eventually dealt with by the 28 heads of state and government at the European Council of 9th and 10th March. The Parliament’s recommendations will actually be presented by the president, Antonio Tajani, to the EU leaders when opening the summit. But the floor will also be waiting to discuss the White Paper on the future of the EU with the president of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. During the plenary session, the MEPs will question the EU Commission about the infringement of mobility rights in the United Kingdom in connection with Brexit. Actually, the MEPs are “worried – as explained by a source of the EU Assembly – that the mobility rights of EU citizens who are resident of the United Kingdom may have been or may be breached”. “Mobility rights, protected by Directive 2004, are actually a mainstay of European citizenship, but they are not fully enforced in many member states, including the United Kingdom”. This afternoon, the MEPs will address the problem of missing migrant children in Europe, with Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos. Europol estimated that in 2016 about 10 thousand unaccompanied refugee children went missing after arriving in Europa.

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