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Nordic migration and justice ministers on Tuesday announced a deal which will see the five countries share flights to return foreigners who have had asylum claims rejected back to their homelands.
https://www.thelocal.se/20231031/no...re-deportation-flights-for-illegal-immigrantsDenmark has spearheaded harder lines on migrants in the Nordics and stepped up initiatives to discourage immigration and put roadblocks for the acquisition of Danish nationality. Tuesday's deal followed a two-day meeting with ministers from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark in Copenhagen.
Denmark's immigration ministry said in a statement that the five countries had agreed to co-operate on joint flights from "a Nordic country to a third country, so that people without legal residence in several of the Nordic countries can depart from one Nordic country to a third country".
This would be done in collaboration with the EU's border surveillance agency, Frontex, the statement said.
Along with the joint flights, the five countries agreed to increase collaboration between migration attachés responsible for deportation, and also to work jointly on increasing support to migrants before they leave Africa.