EU countries to set up asylum centre in Rwanda

Five EU member states – Austria, Germany, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands – have almost reached an agreement with Rwanda to host a centre for refused asylum seekers in the EU. This writes the Financial Times with reference to its own sources, writes sb.by.

According to TASS, the official announcement of the agreement can be made during the conference on migration, which will be held in Vienna in mid-November. According to one of the interlocutors of the FT, the EU countries are forced to take into account a tight budget framework, so it is planned to use the existing infrastructure. In particular, the possibility of using facilities built under the British program 2022, which was later abandoned, is being considered.

This information was confirmed by other interlocutors of the publication: they pointed out that the option of using the infrastructure created with British funds is really being worked out, and the European side is studying in detail the complex, originally built for the needs of London.

Earlier, the Minister of Migration and Asylum of Greece Thanos Plevris told Politico that Greece, together with a number of other EU countries, intends to launch a pilot project to expel migrants who have been denied asylum to third countries. The start of the project is scheduled for the first half of 2027. In Germany, thousands of Syrians received notifications of deprivation of refugee status