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EU adopts Returns Regulation allowing migrant return hubs in non-EU countries

EU interior ministers meeting in Luxembourg formally adopted tougher migration rules allowing return hubs in non-EU countries and broader detention powers, with a first agreement possible by the end of the year.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 1 min read

EU interior ministers meeting in Luxembourg on 1 October formally adopted a tougher Returns Regulation, allowing the creation of migrant return hubs in non-EU countries and granting authorities broader detention powers. The regulation is expected to enter into force in the coming weeks.

Denmark’s Morten Bodskov said work on the return hubs was “progressing very well” and “moving in the right direction”, with Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany and the Netherlands involved. Germany’s Alexander Dobrindt said preliminary talks were under way and stressed legal sustainability, suggesting a first agreement could be reached by the end of the year.

EU migration chief Magnus Brunner said Pakistan and Bangladesh were the main starting points for the hub policy. Greece’s Thanos Plevris said his country was aiming to open a centre in an unnamed agreed African country in 2027.

Two Greens lawmakers, Anna Strolenberg and Tineke Strik, said Rwandan officials had told them Kigali was negotiating with the five countries involved.

The Luxembourg meeting was the ministers’ first in-person gathering since a summer surge of arrivals in Spain’s exclave of Ceuta.

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