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DIPLOMATS could face visa sanctions if their countries refuse to take back citizens deported from the European Union, EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos announced yesterday.
The bloc claims only half of asylum-seekers who have been denied visas are returned at present, blaming them for losing or destroying ID, which makes it difficult to establish nationality.
France, for example, insists angrily that Mali routinely refuses to accept people that Paris insists are its citizens.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
The new plan sets out an uncompromising bid for global dominance, casting even allies as obstacles to be subdued, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK