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Returns

Decisions about the return or deportation of people without a right to stay, return hubs or readmission agreements.

Decisions
3 on 3 sitting days
Outcomes
3 adopted · 0 rejected
Period
23 Oct 2025 – 17 Jun 2026
Assigned by
A model, not checked by hand
More facts (4)
Roll-call votes
3
By kind
New laws 2 · Resolutions 1
Part of
Migration & asylum
Key
migration/returns
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Decisions, 3

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The latest decisions on this subtopic, newest first; the export holds all of them.

Effect: what the decision did. Final vote: for–against–abstained, and how it was recorded.
DateDecisionKindEffectFinal vote
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) (No. 2, 17 Jun 2026) New lawsPassed418 for, 218 against, 30 abstained by roll call
26 Mar 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) (No. 1, 26 Mar 2026) New lawsNegotiating mandate approved389 for, 206 against, 32 abstained by roll call
23 Oct 2025Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit ResolutionsAdopted367 for, 98 against, 113 abstained by roll call

Dossiers, 2

The dossiers these decisions belong to, the one voted on most recently first.

Decisions: decisions on the dossier counted here. Latest decision: its date and outcome.
DossierDecisionsLatest decision
Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) 2025-0059Decisions217 Jun 2026 · Adopted
Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit 2025-2933Decisions123 Oct 2025 · Adopted

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Group lines

How each group voted on the final votes of this subtopic: its clear line or divided.

The last 3 final roll-call votes. Each group’s line on the final votes, with members counted in the group they sat in on the day; a clear line = at least two thirds of the group’s votes with at least 10 members voting (method). For / Against / Abstained: its clear line. Divided: no clear line. With the outcome: votes where its majority line matched the result. Votes: finals the group voted on.
GroupForAgainstAbstainedDividedWith the outcomeVotes
The LeftFor0Against2Abst.1Divided0With outcome0of3
GreensFor1Against2Abst.0Divided0With outcome1of3
S&DFor1Against2Abst.0Divided0With outcome1of3
RenewFor1Against0Abst.0Divided2With outcome2of3
EPPFor3Against0Abst.0Divided0With outcome3of3
ECRFor2Against0Abst.1Divided0With outcome2of3
PatriotsFor2Against1Abst.0Divided0With outcome2of3
ESNFor2Against1Abst.0Divided0With outcome2of3

Connections

Topics and issues that come up together with this one, and its main dossiers.

Topics that come up with it

  • Topic Foreign affairs Ukraine, the Middle East, China, enlargement, human rights abroad.

Running issues

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/migration?sub=returns
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Returns”. Topic (model-assigned). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/migration?sub=returns (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-topic-migration-returns,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Returns}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/migration?sub=returns}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/migration?sub=returns},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Topic (model-assigned). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}