{"id":624050,"date":"2025-12-10T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624050\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:58:16","slug":"frederiksen-and-starmer-push-to-water-down-europes-human-rights-treaty-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624050\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederiksen and Starmer push to water down Europe\u2019s human rights treaty \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their appeal takes on added significance after the EU overhauled its migration rules on Monday, which made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-eu-migration-copehnagen-rasmus-stoklund-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denmark\u2019s tough approach<\/a> to migration a standard for the bloc. Establishment political groups across Europe are struggling to deal with the rise of anti-migration parties, which have used the issue as electoral rocket fuel in recent years.  <\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s justice and home affairs ministers signed off on new policies that let EU countries deport unsuccessful asylum applicants, establish offshore processing centers and create removal hubs beyond EU territory. The U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/asylum-and-returns-policy-statement\/restoring-order-and-control-a-statement-on-the-governments-asylum-and-returns-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhauled its asylum system<\/a> in a similar direction last month.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from around 40 of the 46 Council of Europe members are expected to attend a meeting Wednesday on migration in Strasbourg. <\/p>\n<p>The Council of Europe \u2014 the continent\u2019s leading human rights organization \u2014 wants to counter the narrative that the ECHR is standing in the way of action on migration, including returns. In May, 9 countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-countries-criminals-human-rights-austria-estonia-poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter<\/a> calling for the ECHR \u2014 which came into force in 1953 \u2014 to be reinterpreted to allow migrants who commit crimes to be expelled more easily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our chance to bring that discussion where it belongs \u2014 within the walls of the Council of Europe \u2014 and to chart a way forward,\u201d the organization\u2019s boss Alain Berset <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/trumps-scathing-attack-jolts-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told POLITICO\u2019s Brussels Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zoya Sheftalovich contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Their appeal takes on added significance after the EU overhauled its migration rules on Monday, which made Denmark\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5108,768,748,365,393,4884,4582,807,48802,6657,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-624050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-human-rights","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-mette-frederiksen","18":"tag-migration","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115694921728911771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}