The European Commission apparently has no clue that one of its senior officials went to Afghanistan in January to meet with the Taliban, the latest indictment of an institution that continues to railroad accountability while proclaiming itself to be transparent.
Let me give you a prime example.
Johannes Luchner is the deputy-director general of the commission’s branch dealing with home affairs. On 26 January, he told MEPs in a public hearing that he had met with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
His exact words: “With Afghanistan, and I’ve been there just last week together with the head of Belgian migration, we’re not discussing legal migration with the de facto authorities. Our first interest is the return of criminals, but we also have an increasing number of non-criminal Afghans with a return order.”
You can watch him say it here [time stamp 15:02].
