BRUSSELS – European Union ministers on Monday debated ways to persuade northern African countries to take back migrants denied entry into the 27-nation bloc, as the EU considers making it more difficult for those failing to cooperate to secure European visas.
Migrants arriving in Europe without authorization routinely lose or destroy their identity documents, or use fake papers, making it hard to work out where they came from and send them home.
Sometimes the countries they live in or transit through are reluctant to take them back. “We have to work for safe and fair and regular migration.
We have to put together incentives in order to make third countries accept the people who have to go back, and to create a flow of regular migration," EU