{"id":23476,"date":"2026-06-23T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23476\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:57:07","slug":"afghan-taliban-to-hold-rare-closed-door-talks-with-eu-officials-on-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23476\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban to hold rare, closed-door talks with EU officials on deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"36NOK7IMHBEOBD6TCS5Y7HLEXE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BRUSSELS \u2014 A delegation from the Afghan Taliban is traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for closed-door talks with European Union staff, expected to focus on deportations, said a Taliban official.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R7CHCDBRCREAXIEFAPNKL34COY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Afghans make up one of the largest groups of migrants seeking asylum in the European Union, but a growing number of governments in the 27-nation bloc want to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/migration-deportation-sweden-afghanistan-crime-30a5f85c6eb26aab4ec6d9499473b681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speed up and increase deportations<\/a> for those whose claims are rejected or who commit crimes in their host countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2014 A delegation from the Afghan Taliban is traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for closed-door talks with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,14074,264,2219,994,192,142],"class_list":["post-23476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-eu-europe-taliban","tag-general-news","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116798832440804285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}