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Thousands deported with Frontex help never see promised EU reintegration money

Summary by EU Observer
Internal minutes show Frontex urging national authorities and NGOs to run sensitive data past the agency before talking to journalists, even as it insists “transparency is the rule” and refuses to release basic figures on who actually got paid.

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Thousands of migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave the EU as part of a programme of financial assistance for their return to their homeland did not receive the promised funds ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

For years Frontex has facilitated the so-called "voluntary departures" of foreign citizens residing on European territory without the return measures provided for by law and in fact violating its Regulation in almost a third of the countries of the Union. And leaving them in many cases without the promised aid. It is what emerges from an investigation conducted by Altraeconomy in collaboration with EuObserver and nd.DerTag that, through unpublis…

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EU Observer broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
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