Melike Pala<\/p>\n
12 May 2026\u2022Update: 12 May 2026<\/p>\n
The EU is planning to invite Afghanistan’s Taliban officials to Brussels for technical-level talks on migration and returns, a European Commission spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the EU Commission’s midday press briefing in Brussels, spokesperson Markus Lammert said the EU’s Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), together with Sweden’s Justice Ministry, had sent a letter to Afghanistan’s “de facto authorities” to explore the possibility of holding a follow-up meeting in the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n
“I can confirm that DG Home, together with the Swedish Ministry of Justice, has sent a letter to the de facto authorities in Afghanistan to inquire about the availability for a meeting at a technical level here in Brussels,” Lammert said.<\/p>\n
The planned talks would follow a previous technical meeting held in Afghanistan in January, he added.<\/p>\n
Lammert said the contacts stem from an initiative launched by 20 EU member states and Schengen-associated countries in October last year, when governments asked the EU Commission to coordinate discussions with Afghan authorities on migration returns.<\/p>\n
According to the spokesperson, the focus is on the return of individuals who “have no right to stay in the union” and who are considered security threats by member states.<\/p>\n
“So this is mainly about persons who pose a security threat,” he said.<\/p>\n
The commission stressed that the engagement does not amount to diplomatic recognition of the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melike Pala 12 May 2026\u2022Update: 12 May 2026 The EU is planning to invite Afghanistan’s Taliban officials to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,31849],"class_list":{"0":"post-80615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116561959032535137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80615","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=80615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}