Written question – Return brochure for children and young people – E-002409/2025

Question for written answer  E-002409/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Özlem Demirel (The Left)

In 2023, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) published a brochure titled ‘My guidebook on return’ to prepare children, young people and unaccompanied minors for their removal. Until recently widely overlooked, the illustrated publication trivialises the coercive measure of deportation with child-friendly language and colourful images, as if it were an exciting adventure.

• 1.Who was tasked respectively with producing, designing, translating and printing the brochure, and what resources were spent on it?
• 2.When, in what volume and in which languages were the brochures published, and where are they handed out in printed form?
• 3.How does Frontex respond to the criticism that the brochure does not speak openly about the return process, thus concealing the reality of the often traumatising measures?

Submitted: 16.6.2025