MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Number of third-country nationals ordered to leave the EU – E-001249/2025

Question for written answer  E-001249/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Özlem Demirel (The Left)

The Commission proposal for a return regulation – COM(2025)0101, 2025/0059(COD) – states that only 20% of third-country nationals ordered to leave the EU actually do so.

• 1.What data are included in the Commission’s calculation, on what legal bases, and were only final notices to leave taken into account in the calculation?
• 2.Does the return rate calculation take account of circumstances where persons have been ordered to leave, but enforcement of the order has been suspended by the government concerned on humanitarian, family-related or other grounds, and can a breakdown of those grounds be produced? If those circumstances are not taken into account, why are they not taken into account?
• 3.Does the Commission see a need to clarify how the figures are gathered and analysed?

Submitted: 26.3.2025