20 international locations are pushing for extra deportations to Afghanistan | EUROtoday

20 European international locations are calling on the EU Commission to supply extra choices for returning Afghans with out residency rights to their homeland. The Dutch authorities revealed a corresponding letter to EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner – Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) can also be named as a co-signatory.

In it, the states complain that 22,870 Afghans acquired a return choice within the EU final yr, however solely 435 of them really returned to Afghanistan. They name for the difficulty of voluntary and compelled returns to Afghanistan to be addressed as a “shared responsibility” at EU stage. The states are additionally calling for additional choices to be examined for deportations to the nation managed by the Islamist Taliban – with precedence on folks “who pose a threat to public order or national security”.

In addition to Germany and the Netherlands, the states that signed the letter on Belgium’s initiative embody Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Cyprus. Also Norway, which isn’t a member of the EU however is a part of the Schengen space and works with the EU asylum company.

Germany is negotiating with the Islamist Taliban about deportations to Afghanistan. According to Dobrindt, the discussions are “well advanced”. Contacts with the Taliban are controversial as a result of the federal authorities formally has no diplomatic relations with the Islamists, who’ve been again in energy in Afghanistan since August 2021. Because of their disregard for human rights and particularly ladies’s rights, they’re internationally remoted. Since the Taliban got here to energy, Afghans have been deported from Germany twice with the assistance of Qatar.