Dragutin Mate, Slovenian Minister of the Interior and President of the JHA Council, will attend a political trialogue on the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (Return Directive) at the European Parliament in Brussels on 9 April 2008.
The minister will meet with Manfred Weber, the European Parliament's rapporteur on the Return Directive. The aim of the meeting is to achieve a compromise, which could lead to the adoption of the directive in the first reading, since it has been discussed in the EU institutions for almost three years.
