Most return flights carried out by the EU's border police Frontex this year will take place from Italy and Germany.
"Germany and Italy are the member states that will make use of the large majority of Frontex flights for returns in 2023," confirmed the European Commission, in an email on Wednesday (15 March).
The flights are part of wider push to get EU states to use Frontex to help return rejected asylum seekers and others ordered to leave.
Some 340,000 return decisions wer...
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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.