00:00Which EU country returns the most irregular migrants?
00:07Irregular migration is a hot topic in European politics at the moment
00:11and often gives rise to dubious claims,
00:14the latest of which has come from Portugal.
00:16Minister of the Presidency of Portugal,
00:19Antonio Leitao Amaro,
00:20of the ruling centre-right Social Democratic Party,
00:23recently said that the Socialist Party
00:26failed to tackle irregular migration during its roughly eight years in government,
00:31between 2015 and 2024.
00:34He said that Portugal is one of the countries that returns the least illegal immigrants.
00:40But how do Portugal's returns figures compare to those of other EU countries?
00:45To find out, we can take a look at official Eurostat statistics,
00:49which log the third country nationals returned
00:52following an order to leave each EU country every quarter.
00:55For example, the most recent data set including every EU member
00:59is quarter three of 2024,
01:02which shows that Slovakia returned the fewest irregular migrants,
01:05having sent back 55 people,
01:08followed by Slovenia with 80,
01:10and then Portugal with 85.
01:12On the other side of the spectrum was France,
01:14having returned nearly 4,000 people,
01:17followed by Germany and Spain with just over 3,000 people each.
01:21It's a similar story every year.
01:23In quarter one of 2025,
01:25France, Germany and this time Cyprus
01:28returned the most irregular immigrants,
01:30according to Eurostat,
01:32with Luxembourg, Slovenia and Slovakia bringing up the rear.
01:35Figures indicate the EU as a whole is ramping up efforts
01:39to clamp down on irregular immigration.
01:42Some 29,000 non-EU citizens were returned to a third country in quarter four of 2024,
01:49representing an increase of 24.3% compared to the same period the year before.
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02:03They are going to be as big as close as possible.
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02:17And we have to be able to leave the EU.
02:19We are going to be able to stay together.
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