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Europe rejects anti-piracy plans ... put in prison for up to 18 months for such offences as extending the period of the validity of their permit for just a couple of days," Martin Rozumek, director of the Czech Organisation for Help to Refugees, said. He said he also resented the fact that the directive would very much weaken the possibility of their voluntary return home. Rozumek said his organisation called on MEPs during the debate on the directive not to vote for it as its approval would be a step backward. Zuzana Bednarova from the Czech Centre for Integration of Foreigners shares Rozumek's view. "We disagree with the constant toughening of legislation on foreigners.
We think that there are other ways of solving the problem of migration. This path leads nowhere," Bednarova said. The new European directive could concern in the Czech Republic people who arrived in the country in search of work from the former Soviet Union countries and who do not have necessary permits for stay. The deadline for the detention of foreigners in the Czech Republic is at present six months. Under the new European directive, immigrants will have 30 days to leave the country voluntarily if they uncovered by the authorities. If they fail to do so the authorities will be able to detain them for six months during which they will prepare their deportation. However, in exceptional cases the detention could be prolonged by another 12 months. The European Commission that drafted the directive explained it as a preventive message for the remaining world that it is not worth coming to the EU in contradiction with law. After the new directive takes effect individual EU member states will have two years to embed it into their national legislation.
(Ceske Noviny)
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