{"id":113698,"date":"2026-06-22T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/113698\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:45:09","slug":"taliban-arriving-in-brussels-in-next-few-days-for-eu-talks-on-deporting-afghans-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/113698\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban arriving in Brussels in next few days for EU talks on deporting Afghans \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taliban will be arriving to Brussels in the next few days to meet with European Commission counterparts eager to deport Afghan nationals.<\/p>\n

The pending arrival was confirmed to EUobserver on Monday (22 June) by Audrey Jacquiez, a spokesperson for Belgium\u2019s deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know when they will arrive but it\u2019s a question of days,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Jacquiez said five visas <\/a>were issued last week. The visas would be valid for an \u201cextremely short\u201d time. Asked if this meant several days, she said \u201cnot even\u201d.<\/p>\n

The commission has been courting the Taliban for months, dispatching the deputy head of its home affairs department, Johannes Luchner, to Kabul in January.<\/p>\n

Luchner said that while the intent is to return criminals, he also inferred that others could follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first interest is the return of criminals, but we also have an increasing number of non-criminal Afghans with a return order,\u201d he told European lawmakers in late January.<\/p>\n

Luchner told MEPs he had travelled to the country earlier that same month.<\/p>\n

But in a sign of the political sensitivities over the issue, his boss Beate Gminder has since told EUobserver, in a document access request, that the commission has no records of Luchner ever meeting the Taliban or even going to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taliban will be arriving to Brussels in the next few days to meet with European Commission counterparts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[5754,211,210,37869,37866,37864,37867,37865,37868],"class_list":["post-113698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-identifier23","tag-identifier4577","tag-nameafghanistan","tag-namemigration","tag-termcodeafghanistan","tag-termcodemigration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116793358657871811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}