Rejected asylum applicants who refuse to leave the EU may end up being electronically tagged before being sent back home.
The plans are part of a larger effort by the European Commission to quickly dispatch those not entitled to EU residency.
This includes using development assistance, trade agreements, trade preferences, and neighbourhood policy as leverage to impose readmission agreements with sub-Saharan and north African countries, according to a leaked European Commission c...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.