EU Leaders Support Foreign Deportation Centers
The EUobserver reports that a group of 19 EU leaders are supporting foreign deportation centers that would accept asylum applicants who are rejected, along the lines of Italy's collaboration with Albania.
The leaders have signed a public letter and are from: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Sweden.
According to a report in the EUobserver by Gaia Neiman, the plan would "offshore asylum by setting up so-called return hubs abroad for people whose applications for international protection have been rejected."
