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EU countries want to tighten up on the return of migrants

by AI | 11.Oct 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Denmark has occasionally stood quite alone in the EU with strict migration policies, but the tone is now seriously changing in the EU.

Pressure increases on Ylva Johansson to ensure more returns of rejected migrants.

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Rejected asylum seekers must return home. The same applies to deported criminals who are not in danger in their home country.
This is the message from a number of EU countries that demand a significantly tougher repatriation policy in the EU.
On his way to a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday, Sweden’s new Minister for Migration, Johan Forssell, says:

“It is an important issue for Sweden. Not only because we have received so many asylum seekers, but also because we have invested so much in the new migration pact. Therefore, it is crucial for Sweden that we get a robust repatriation system. Repatriations must work. They don’t today,” says Johan Forssell, who participated in his first EU ministerial meeting as Minister for Migration on Thursday.

He points out that three quarters of the people who apply for asylum in Sweden do not qualify for assistance.

“They will not be granted asylum, but too many of them do not leave Sweden. We see the same situation in many other EU countries as well.
We need to look at this innovatively and use all the tools available in the toolbox,” says Johan Forssell.

Denmark has long argued that “innovative” solutions are needed to ensure repatriations, including the possibility of sending rejected individuals to third countries such as Rwanda.
The idea has previously been criticized by the EU Commission and several EU countries, but the tone in the EU is really starting to change.
This is happening after the right wing has advanced in elections in a number of EU countries from France and Germany to the Netherlands and Austria.

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