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An overview of cooperation on readmission agreements and arrangements with key countries, produced by the European Commission, show that the “external dimension” promoted under the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum treats non-cooperation with EU migration policy as worthy of sanction. Despite adopting a coercive outlook, these partnerships in which “readmission is an important component”, are described as “comprehensive, tailor-made and mutually beneficial”.

The EU is aiming to convince Iraqi authorities to withdraw their opposition to accepting deportations of Iraqi nationals, establish “smooth cooperation” on readmission and integrate “return, readmission and cooperation” into broader EU-Iraq cooperation on migration. This initiative fits within a wider punitive mechanism that includes monitoring cooperation on readmission by partner countries to promote the “external dimension of migration management”.

Romania will set up a civil protection center in the country to distribute humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Thus, humanitarian aid will be collected and delivered to the most affected areas in the neighboring country. Bucharest will also access EU funds for the management of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, to be granted under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the Integrated Border Management Fund. The announcement was made by President Klaus Iohannis, who welcomed on Thursday in Bucharest the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Klaus Iohannis: “It is a logist...