With an almost €100m annual budget dedicated to returns, the EU's border agency Frontex has helped EU states deport over 37,000 people so far this year up until early September. Last year, it was around 38,000 over 12 months.
Hans Leijtens, the executive director at Frontex, recently told MEPs that Europe as a whole is only able to return 22 percent of those w...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.