{"id":670818,"date":"2026-01-03T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670818\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:55:10","slug":"eu-commissioner-expects-highest-deportation-rate-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670818\/","title":{"rendered":"EU commissioner expects &#8216;highest deportation rate since 2019&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Commission expects a sharp rise in deportations from the European Union over the past year, according to EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The deportation rate rose from 19% in 2023 to 27% in the first three quarters of 2025. This means we are likely to reach the highest deportation rate since 2019 this year,&#8221; Brunner told the Sunday edition of the German newspaper Welt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, he added that this was &#8220;still far from sufficient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We must combat illegal migration on all fronts,&#8221; Brunner said. This includes consistently deporting those who have lost the right to remain in the EU, the commissioner said, as well as &#8220;swiftly rejecting people with little prospect of receiving asylum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also requires close cooperation with third countries to ensure that people do not embark on dangerous migration routes in the first place, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EU member states sealed far-reaching agreements on key aspects of migration policy at the beginning of December in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among other measures, they agreed to increase pressure on rejected asylum seekers and make deportation procedures more efficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The creation of return centres in third countries outside the EU is also set to be allowed in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission expects a sharp rise in deportations from the European Union over the past year, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[8517,2000,199358,299,5187,1699,23906],"class_list":{"0":"post-670818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-deportation","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-commissioner","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-magnus-brunner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830333343788863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}