Negotiators on Monday agreed new rules to speed up and increase deportations from the EU, including making it possible to send failed asylum-seekers to hubs outside the bloc.
The text is part of sweeping reforms the EU is rolling out to increase control over who crosses its external borders and to support countries that receive the most external migrants, with Monday’s agreement landing just days before other migration and asylum reforms start applying on June 12.
Monday’s agreement will help the EU regain control over “who comes to to the European Union, but also who has to leave the European Union,” Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner said.
He pointed to the rate of failed asylum-seekers who leave the bloc, which recent Eurostat figures put around 27 percent. “We must give the people the feeling back that we have control over what’s happening,” he said.
