{"id":398491,"date":"2024-10-17T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/10\/17\/paesi-bassi-migranti-irregolari-uganda\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:57:49","slug":"dutch-far-right-wants-to-deport-rejected-asylum-seekers-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/17\/dutch-far-right-wants-to-deport-rejected-asylum-seekers-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch far-right wants to deport rejected asylum seekers to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – While the European Council<\/strong> underway in the EU capital<\/a> discusses, among other things,\u00a0migration and repatriation<\/strong>, this morning (Oct. 17), the head of the government of the Netherlands<\/strong> put forward a proposal that is bound to stir debate. In essence, The Hague is reportedly considering deporting African refugees<\/strong>\u00a0rejected for\u00a0asylum to Uganda<\/strong>. The issue of so-called “repatriation hubs<\/strong>” in third countries<\/strong> has been a hot topic<\/a> in recent weeks,\u00a0taking center stage among the Twenty-seven heads of state and government, who will now also have this “innovative solution<\/strong>” to consider.<\/p>\n

Before the meeting of the leaders of the Twenty-Seven officially began, some of them met this morning at the invitation of the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni,<\/strong> Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen,<\/strong> and\u00a0Dick Schoof<\/strong>\u00a0of the Netherlands to “talk about countering irregular migration flows<\/strong> and in particular innovative solutions<\/strong>” to manage the problem at the European level, in the words<\/a> the Italian premier. The other participants were the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen <\/strong>(who recently openly praised<\/a> the idea of external hotspots<\/strong>), and representatives from Austria<\/strong>, Czechia<\/strong>, Cyprus<\/strong>, Greece<\/strong>, Malta<\/strong>, Poland<\/strong>, Slovakia<\/strong>, and Hungary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, where Meloni\u00a0presented as successful<\/a> the outsourcing\u00a0of asylum claims assessment procedures<\/strong> in the two CPRs (centers of detention for repatriation) in Albania<\/strong> that have just come into operation, Schoof\u00a0put forth\u00a0the idea, which has matured in his cabinet, of sending refugees who unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the Netherlands to Uganda, <\/strong>thus deporting them. The move would regard asylum seekers from the East Central Africa<\/strong> region, who, in the plans (yet to be worked out in detail) of the Dutch government, should be “taken in” by Kampala in exchange for financial compensation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During a trip to Uganda, Dutch Minister for International Trade\u00a0Reinette Klever<\/strong> (from the PVV<\/strong>, the ultra-right-wing anti-migrant party of Geert Wilders<\/strong> that won the election last November)\u00a0declared<\/a> that “It is important for\u00a0the government that those who have exhausted all legal remedies return to their home countries.”<\/p>\n

The agreement with Uganda, described by the minister as “a hospitable country<\/strong>” despite continuous human rights violations<\/strong> (from the freedom to express political dissent to the freedom to express one’s sexuality freely, with homosexuality banned by law), is still undefined and will have to be explored by the asylum policy officer, his party colleague Marjolein Faber<\/strong>, in coordination with Ugandan Foreign Minister Jeje Odongo<\/strong>, who reportedly said he was open to talks. In fact, there appears to be no agreement\u00a0even within the four-party coalition<\/strong> that holds together the government in The Hague.<\/p>\n

Denmark, which co-organized this morning’s event with Italy and the Netherlands, reportedly proposed a similar solution but focused on Kosovo<\/strong>. It is not the first time that such a solution has been suggested to address the “problem” of where to place individuals leaving their country of origin to try to enter the EU and are refused asylum. Germany<\/strong>, for example, is reportedly considering shipping Afghan applicants to Uzbekistan<\/strong> in exchange for a promise to accept more Uzbek economic migrants. Faber\u00a0has recently shown interest in the Central Asian country as a possible destination for Dutch transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Brussels, the topic of migration is getting increasingly hot and is animating the debates between the chancelleries of the Twenty-Seven, especially on the issue of returns of those whose asylum claims are rejected by member states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":398458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26206,27998,26064,26205,29418,26527,29419],"class_list":["post-398491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-applicants-asylum-en","tag-giorgia-meloni-en","tag-immigration-en-2","tag-mette-frederiksen-and","tag-paesi-bassi-en","tag-uganda-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398815,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398491\/revisions\/398815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}