# Five EU countries plan Rwanda hub for rejected migrants from next year

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/eu-capitals-to-unveil-deal-to-start-sending-rejected-migrants-to-rwanda-raising-fresh-questions-over-labours-move-to-ditch-the-tories-flagship-deportation-scheme-to-stop-the-boats/
- Published: 2026-11-15T22:04:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T22:20:37+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16294489/Several-EU-capitals-announce-deal-migrants-Rwanda.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Five EU countries plan a Rwanda returns hub.
- It would handle people whose claims to stay have been rejected.
- The UK’s scrapped scheme differed and was ruled unlawful.

## Summary

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands plan to establish a Rwanda hub for migrants whose asylum claims and other routes to legal residence in the EU have been rejected. The pilot, expected to begin as early as next year, reflects a wider European effort to increase removals and deter irregular migration, while renewing debate over the UK’s decision to abandon its own Rwanda scheme.

The article says the countries will announce the agreement in Vienna after months of talks, under new EU powers for offshore return hubs. Further arrangements involving countries such as Uzbekistan and Uganda are reportedly being considered, and more than half of EU member states support offshore processing centres. In the UK, Channel crossings are down about 40 per cent on last year, but 454 people arrived in eight boats on Saturday; unlike the proposed EU hub, the former UK plan envisaged deportation before asylum claims were decided and was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court in 2023.

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