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EU Reaches Agreement with Afghan Gov’t to Deport Afghan Refugees

HeadlineOct 04, 2016

This comes as the European Union has reached an agreement with the Afghan government that allows the EU to deport an unlimited number of Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan. A leaked memo shows the EU threatened to reduce humanitarian aid to Afghanistan if the Afghan government did not accept the deportations agreement.

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