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Bødskov expects first migrants to be sent to deportation centre outside EU in 2027

From Berlingske · () Danish

Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

Press release Official statement New plan
  • Denmark expects to send the first people without legal residence to a deportation centre outside the European Union by the end of 2027.
  • Ministers from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Greece will meet in Copenhagen to discuss partnership agreements, legal frameworks and the practical operation of such centres.
  • The Danish government says new EU rules and wider European support have opened the way for the plan.

Denmark expects to be ready to send its first migrants without legal residence to a deportation centre outside the European Union by the end of 2027, Immigration and Integration Minister Morten Bødskov said.

We have come a long way in the work to establish a deportation centre outside the EU, and we are now closer than ever before.

· Morten BødskovDenmark’s immigration minister described the progress toward creating a centre outside the EU.

Bødskov will host ministerial colleagues from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Greece in Copenhagen on Friday. Establishing deportation centres outside the EU will be on the agenda, alongside discussions about how a partnership agreement with a non-EU country could work.

“We have come a long way in the work to establish a deportation centre outside the EU, and we are now closer than ever before,” Bødskov said in a press release. He called the expected first transfers “a milestone on the way towards a more effective asylum and migration system.”

That means that from the Danish side we expect to be ready to send the first migrants to a partner country by the end of next year.

· Morten BødskovHe set out Denmark’s expected timetable for the first transfers.

Denmark has discussed the idea for years as part of its wider push to overhaul the asylum and migration system, but no concrete arrangement had previously emerged. The Danish government says support has now grown across the EU. The European Parliament voted in June to approve new rules that clear a path for deportation centres outside the bloc.

It is a milestone on the way towards a more effective asylum and migration system.

· Morten BødskovHe characterized the planned transfers as part of a broader reform of asylum and migration policy.

The ministers will also examine the legal framework for the centres and how they would operate in practice. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will attend the meeting. Bødskov said it was unsustainable for migrants with no prospect of legal residence to pay large sums to people smugglers to reach Europe, while EU countries spend substantial resources processing applications from people who ultimately do not receive permission to stay.

It is unsustainable that migrants with no prospect of legal residence pay large sums to people smugglers to get to Europe.

· Morten BødskovHe justified the policy by referring to irregular migration and the costs of processing unsuccessful claims.
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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