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EU home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner: 'We see that there have been 20,000 more returns in 2024 compared to the year before' (Photo: Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI))

EU at mercy of home countries in returning rejected asylum seekers

Deporting rejected and failed asylum seekers will not work without readmission agreements with their home countries, says the European Commission.

The reality check, cited by the EU home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner on Monday (7 April), comes after the Brussels-executive presented a

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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.

EU home affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner: 'We see that there have been 20,000 more returns in 2024 compared to the year before' (Photo: Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI))

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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.

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