Dhaka, July 20 -- Germany's interior minister has hosted five of his European counterparts to discuss ways of tightening the region's asylum rules, as his country deported 81 Afghans to their Taliban-controlled homeland.
The European Union's immigration system needed to be "tougher and stricter", Minister Alexander Dobrindt said after Friday's meeting in southern Germany with the interior ministers of France, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Denmark, as well as EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner.
The cohort issued a five-page communique on their aims, which included the establishment of "return hubs" for holding people outside the EU, enabling asylum procedures in third countries, and allowing deportations to Afghanistan and ...