Twenty European Union member states, including Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Hungary, have jointly urged the European Commission to take concrete steps enabling both voluntary and forced returns of Afghan nationals without legal residence status The countries are pressing the EU Commission to start sending back Afghans residing illegally in Europe.
In a letter addressed to Magnus Brunner, the Commissioner of Internal Affairs and Migration, these twenty European countries have come together to pressure the European Commission to find ways to return Afghan nationals living illegally in Europe, either voluntarily or by force.
The initiative includes negotiating with the Taliban to facilitate these deportations.
Previously, six EU nations including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands had urged the EU’s executive branch to intensify talks with the Afghan government to ensure continued deportations of refugees.
Germany had already expelled 81 Afghans before this recent meeting, calling itself the “locomotive” of the European immigration crackdown.
