Belgium urges EU to use aid as bargaining chip to increase migrant returns

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Belgium urges EU to use aid as bargaining chip to increase migrant returns  Belgium's Migration Minister told Euronews that the country supports plans to make development aid and visa policies conditional on countries taking back migrants returned to them.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/01/08/belgium-urges-eu-to-use-aid-as-bargaining-chip-to-increase-migrant-deportations  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Belgium Migration Minister Annelien van Bussert has told Euronews that the EU should use development

00:06aid as a strategic tool to increase migrant returns.

00:10Belgium is already implementing this tit-for-tat approach.

00:13When in discussion with third countries, it ties funding, as well as visa policies, to

00:19cooperation on migration policy.

00:21Belgium justifies this because many irregular migrants ignore orders to leave.

00:26Only one in five people who have to return to their home country returns.

00:32So what do we do at national level?

00:34We have decided that we will have a whole-of-government approach.

00:38So what do we mean by that?

00:39It's that we will relate development aid with the way in which the countries of origin take

00:45back their nationals, for example.

00:48So they have to take back in order to receive development aid?

00:51For example, indeed, also visa policy can be linked to it.

00:56Van Bussert believes, however, that to increase the impact of such moves, European support

01:01is vital.

01:02As part of its proposals for the EU's 2028-2034 budget, the Commission wants to make development

01:10aid conditional on recipient countries cooperating with Brussels' migration policies, including

01:16by accepting people ordered to return.

01:18I'm convinced of the fact that if we would do that at European level, we have much more

01:25leverage towards the countries of origin to use, and that's why we really need this European

01:32cooperation.

01:33And do you see political appetite amongst your European counterparts for this?

01:37Of course.

01:38We see that spirits are changing also at European level.

01:42The approach has been criticised as undermining development goals.

01:47Policy experts and NGOs point out that this very aid helps reduce migration by improving

01:52the quality of life in countries of origin, and warned that the move could damage the EU's

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