EU toughens stance on non-EU countries taking back citizens denied right to stay
Campaigners say bloc’s plan to use development aid, trade policy and access to visas as ‘leverage’ fails to put human rights first
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Campaigners say bloc’s plan to use development aid, trade policy and access to visas as ‘leverage’ fails to put human rights first
London: The EU could adopt a “carrot and stick” approach to repatriating migrants to non-EU countries and stopping illegal immigration, applying economic and diplomatic pressures to other nations in a bid to stem the flow of people to Europe, leaked documents suggest. EU countries received 159,410 people across the Mediterranean alone in 2022, according to the UN Refugee
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Differences on NATO and EU enlargement, energy and climate, and relationships with the United States, China, Russia and Ukraine will prime Davos talks.