Synthesis Report

The Extent of Judicial Control of Pre-Removal Detention in the EU
European Synthesis Report of the Project CONTENTION

by Philippe De Bruycker, Sergo Mananashvili
in collaboration with Géraldine Renaudiere

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A project in cooperation with

CONTENTION Project

The project CONTENTION (Control of Detention), co-funded by the European Union in the framework of the European Return Fund”, is implemented by the Migration Policy Centre at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in partnership with the Odysseus Network (ULB). The main objective of the project is to inform, analyse and compare the EU Return Directive based judicial control of pre-removal detention of third-country nationals in 11 EU Member States (AT, BG, BE, CZ, DE, FR, IT, NL, SK, SI and UK) with a view to improving it, in particular regarding the control of the length of detention. The project seeks to identify and exchange best practices among legal experts and practitioners. More generally, CONTENTION aims to lay the foundation for the first European network of national judges hearing return cases, and to prepare the ground for further judicial cooperation and training of national judges in this field.

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This project is co-financed by the European Union