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Vol 67 No 9

Published 1st May 2026


Take back migrants or face tariffs

Refuse to take back asylum seekers and economic migrants whose applications to live in Europe have been rejected, and we will impose trade tariffs on you; that is the message from EU lawmakers. On 28 April, the European Parliament adopted an amendment to the EU’s General System of Preferences on tariffs that introduced this restriction, the latest move by the EU to curb migration.

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