EU capitals to unveil deal to start sending rejected migrants to Rwanda, raising fresh questions over Labour's move to ditch the Tories' flagship deportation scheme to stop the boats

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Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands will unveil the deal - aimed at reducing illegal land border and Mediterranean boat crossings - in Austrian capital Vienna.

Published: 22:00 GMT, 15 November 2026 | Updated: 22:04 GMT, 15 November 2026

Several EU capitals will tomorrow announce a deal to start sending rejected migrants to Rwanda, raising fresh questions about why Labour ditched the Tories' flagship deportation scheme.

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands will unveil the deal – aimed at reducing illegal land border and Mediterranean boat crossings – in Austrian capital Vienna after months of talks.

It will allow them to start deporting migrants without a legal right to stay in the bloc to the African nation from as early as the New Year.

A deportation hub created in Rwanda would function as a pilot project and deals with other non-EU countries – and involving other EU nations – are set to follow. Deportations to Uzbekistan and Uganda are understood to be on the cards.

It comes after the bloc passed a new law in June giving European capitals the powers to create so-called overseas 'return hubs' in non-EU countries to tackle illegal crossings.

It is part of a wider EU push to get tougher on migration to stave off a rising tide of Right-wing and Eurosceptic sentiment sweeping the bloc.

Over half of the EU's 27 member nations have backed the idea of offshore processing centres.

Labour ruled out sending Channel boat arrivals overseas by scrapping the Tories' Rwanda deportation plans after winning the 2024 election

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