Interior and justice ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss what steps to take following a stabbing in France and a shooting in Belgium, at a time of heightened security concerns linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Speaking after the meeting, migration commissioner Ylva Johansson said she had called emergency talks on Friday with the EU’s returns coordinator, who is responsible for establishing a shared strategy to repatriate non-European nationals who don’t have the right to stay in the EU.
Speeding up the return of people considered a security risk is a priority in the wake of the latest attacks, she said.
“It is absolutely a necessity that we make sure that the European Union is safe from terrorist threats,” she told a press conference.
“People who pose a security risk to the European Union need to be much, much more quickly returned to the country of origin.”
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