{"id":470898,"date":"2026-11-11T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/11\/la-commissione-ue-e-la-nigeria-firmano-un-accordo-per-la-riammissione-dei-migranti\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:10:23","slug":"eu-commission-nigeria-sign-migrant-readmission-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/11\/eu-commission-nigeria-sign-migrant-readmission-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission, Nigeria sign migrant readmission agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The keywords are always the same: returns and, more generally, pushback<\/a> of migrants. Yesterday (10 November), the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner<\/strong>, and Nigeria\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu<\/strong>, signed the first readmission agreement between the EU and Nigeria<\/strong>. The agreement was signed during Brunner\u2019s visit to Abuja, where the Commissioner met with government representatives and other stakeholders to discuss migration management, including repatriation and readmission.<\/p>\n

 According to a press release<\/a> issued by the Commission, the text inked yesterday will establish swift and effective procedures for the identification and return of persons without the legal right to reside in Nigeria or in any EU Member State<\/strong>. With this agreement, the European Commission stresses that \u201cthe EU and Nigeria are building a stronger comprehensive partnership on migration and security.\u201d During the visit, a \u201cSenior Officials Dialogue on Migration and Security\u201d was also launched to enhance EU-Nigeria cooperation in these policy areas.<\/p>\n

 Brunner stated that the African country \u201cis a key partner for Europe, and our ties are steadily growing stronger\u201d. According to the Commissioner, \u201cTogether we are turning dialogue into action: more security, better migration management, joining forces to bring results,\u201d<\/strong> stressing that \u201cwe are turning the huge potential of our partnership into mutual benefit\u201d. <\/p>\n

The European Parliament must now approve the agreement, which the Council of the EU will subsequently ratify. It will enter into force on the first day of the second month following notification by both parties of its conclusion. The EU has concluded readmission agreements and arrangements on return and readmission with <\/strong>24 countries<\/a>. These include 18 legally binding agreements \u2013 with Hong Kong, Macao, Sri Lanka, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Moldova, Pakistan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Turkey, Cape Verde and Belarus \u2013 and 6 non-binding arrangements with Afghanistan, Guinea, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Gambia and the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n

 During his visit to Nigeria, Brunner also met with representatives of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM),  the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The meeting was also attended by members of the Nigerian network of non-governmental organisations NACTAL <\/span>and the Nigerian Civil Society Network on Migration and Development (CSOnetMADE). The aim is to \u201cwork together to protect trafficking victims and displaced people in Nigeria. The EU is supporting them with \u20ac66 million for migration management,<\/span>\u201d the Commissioner announced<\/a> on his social media channels. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Commissioner for Migration: \u201cTogether we are turning dialogue into action: more security, better migration management, joining forces to bring results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":470884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29788],"tags":[25871,25753,35331,35217,26130],"class_list":["post-470898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diritti-en","tag-migrants-en-2","tag-nigeria","tag-palazzo-berlaymont","tag-rights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470898","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\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470899,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470898\/revisions\/470899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}