Motivational
24 Jul, 2025
Michael Williams
Some 43 Iraqi citizens were deported outside of Germany on Tuesday, boarding a charter flight bound for Baghdad.
The Ministry of Justice of the eastern state of Thuringia said all those deported were "single men," required to leave the country, adding that some of them "had been convicted of criminal offences in the past."
Meanwhile, EU interior ministers are meeting in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on Tuesday for talks on how best to combat irregular migration and organized crime.
Among them is German Interior MinisterAlexander Dobrindt, who last week already advocated a harsher European migration policy in talks with several counterparts, including on repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers to countries like Syria and Afghanistan.
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