The analysis will focus on the negotiations of the text of the directives in the Working Party on Migration and Expulsion examining the position of the different actors involved on adherance to human rights standards. Those actors include Member States, the European Commission and committees of the European Parliament.
The analysis will aim to answer the following questions: Were the relevant human rights obligations brought up in the negotiations? If so by whom? Did they influence the text of the directives? Were Member States constrained by their human rights obligations while negotiating the text of the directives? Did human rights have a role to play in developing EU law on labour migration? Were there markable differences between the negotiations for the Blue Card Directive conducted before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the Single Permit Directive which were conducted after Lisbon?
