EU migration ministers meet on Thursday to discuss visa restrictions and better co-ordination inside the bloc to be able to send more people with no right to asylum in Europe back to their home countries including Iraq.
Three years after the 27-nation EU agreed to restrict visas for countries deemed failing to co-operate on taking their people back, only Gambia has been formally punished.
“Establishing an effective and common EU system for returns is a central pillar of well-functioning and credible migration and asylum systems,” the commission said in a discussion paper for the ministers. “Swift action is needed to ensure effective returns from the EU to countries of origin using as leverage all relevant EU policies,” read a draft of their joint statement seen by Reuters.
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