Gli accordi di riammissione tra l'Unione Europea e i paesi Balcanici: più di quanto sembri!

The paper tackles the readmission agreements between the EU and third countries and in particular with Western Balkan countries and Macedonia, as a tool of combating illegal migration. The purpose of the agreements is to establish return mechanisms for repatriation of third country nationals that have irregular stay in the EU to third countries of origin or safe third countries. Such agreements have been signed by the EU with all Western Balkan countries, and particularly after the migrant crisis in 2015-2016, they became central in the mutual relations between the countries. Moreover, the European Commission in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum places strong emphasis on better management of external borders and returns, reiterating once again the importance of readmission agreements and international cooperation with third countries in the security dimension to migration management. In this regard, the contribution responded to some questions related to the purpose of the agreemtns, the return mecchanisms used, the readmission clause of third country nationals, the status of implementation of the agreements, the costs of return operations by Frontex, the negative repercussions of the Dublin regulation upon countries from the Western Balkans, the sentences of the European court of human rights and obbligation to respect the obbligation deriving from the Charter, M.S.S. vs Belgium and Greece and other