EU plans extra billion euros to pay African countries to take back migrants

‘The European Commission wants to offer an additional 1 billion euro (£726 million) to African countries if they agree to take back migrants arriving with no legitimate claims to asylum.

The measure is designed as an incentive to encourage African countries to repatriate their citizens whose asylum applications are rejected by EU states, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel.

The proposal comes as Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, accused many EU countries of playing an “undignified game” over the ongoing dispute on distributing refugees among European countries.

Mr Schulz called on European governments who have resisted EU proposals to agree to a common plan to do more to deal with the surging numbers of migrants fleeing poverty and war.’

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