The 26 June launch of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development's (ICMPD) report on the effectiveness of assisted return programmes for African migrants featured a keynote speaker. Ylva Johansson, European Union (EU) commissioner for home affairs, spoke in person at the event that was also relayed via video conference. She referred at length to Tunisia, a country she had visited a month earlier and where the ICMPD is particularly active.

The presence of an EU commissioner illustrates