European Parliament
A6-0414/2006
Manuel Medina Ortega (PSE ). –
(ES)
Madam President, the welfare of children in the European Union is still facing certain difficulties, but they have been more or less resolved. However, what happens to children who are in the European Union but are not its citizens? There is international legislation making it obligatory to protect these children, but in some regions numbers of immigrant children have been accumulating because they cannot be returned to their countries of origin, and regional or local authorities have to take responsibility for them.
Has the Council considered the possibility of taking any measures with regard to immigrant children within the European Union?

