The European Union’s top migration official said Thursday that deportations were a key priority for the bloc’s executive branch, as Greece grapples with a high number of people arriving illegally across the country’s borders.
“The topic of returns is something we have to deliver, definitely,” EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner told Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a visit to Athens.
The Austrian conservative, who assumed the migration and internal affairs post in late 2024, stressed the importance of implementing the EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact.
