Denmark Expects to Send First Migrants to Return Hub Outside EU in 2027
Five EU countries are negotiating with a non-EU partner as rights groups warn the plan could weaken safeguards for rejected asylum seekers.
- On Friday, Immigration and Integration Minister Morten Bodskov hosted counterparts from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Greece in Copenhagen to finalize concrete steps toward the European Union's first return hub arrangement with a non-EU country.
- Denmark expects to be ready by 2027 to send migrants without legal residency to a return hub outside the European Union, as the five nations prepare to finalize partnership plans.
- Bodskov stated, "We expect to be ready to send the first foreigners to a partner country by the end of next year," though he declined to identify specific partner nations.
- In June, the European Parliament approved a broader migration policy overhaul aimed at accelerating deportations and permitting member states to establish detention centers abroad.
- Human rights concerns loom large: the Council of Europe warned in July that return hubs pose "considerable human rights risks," including potential ill-treatment and arbitrary detention of foreign nationals.
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