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BRUSSELS — The EU is closing in on a plan designed to increase the number of failed asylum seekers leaving the bloc.
Described by Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner as the “missing piece” of plans to toughen up EU migration policy, negotiators for the Council, Parliament and Commission are expected to reach a deal in a final round of talks on Wednesday.
The rate of failed asylum seekers leaving the EU is around 20 percent, according to numbers cited by the European Commission, although recent Eurostat figures put it above 25 percent.
“People who do not have the right to stay in the European Union must be returned effectively,” Brunner told POLITICO. “The new rules will give us more control over who can come to the EU, who can stay, and who must leave. This is what EU citizens expect, and that is what we must deliver.”
