EU states can pay to send refugees back under new migrant rules
Europe’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson
EU countries can pay for migrants to be returned from Europe instead of taking in refugees under European Commission plans to overhaul the bloc's migration policy.
The olive branch to the more hardline eastern European states is designed to break a deadlock over reforms. However, Marissa Ryan, head of Oxfam's EU office, criticised the union for "bowing" to anti-migrant governments.
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