EU plots BAN on visiting leaders unless they take BACK migrants refusing deportation

Foreign leaders from countries including Bangladesh and Nigeria will be blocked from receiving visitor visas under the proposed plan. 

The ‘s plan would see foreign leaders who refuse to accept the return of illegal migrants Britain refused entry. 

A leaked Brussels paper said linking migrant returns with visitor visas “should be further used towards countries that do not co-operate in the area of return and readmission”. 

Other countries at risk of the new rule include the Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast and Senegal, the Times reports. 

It comes after official figures show an illegal migrant arriving in the EU from Africa or Asia has a 73 per cent change of remaining in the bloc – even if served with an order of deportation.

The paper, leaked by rights watchdog Statewatch, said a deal in which migrants are transferred to Turkey has not been successful. 

It read: “Returns to Turkey have not picked up. Increasing the efficiency and speed of the appeal process for asylum cases and the capacity to return from the islands remain a priority.”

Last month the Times reported the EU’s migrant commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said the EU was “not afraid to make use of leverages in trade or visa policy”. 

A spokesman for Statewatch panned the proposal, claiming it lacked humanity. 

Tony Bunyan said: “The EU’s policy towards refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty is to create ‘reception’, or rather detention centres across Africa. 

“In Libya it is widely reported that these centres are quite appalling. 

“It is a policy that lacks principles and humanity.”

The plot was revealed on the day the EU held its annual state of the union speech, in which Jean-Claude Juncker admitted more needed to be done to fight the

He said: “Migration remains on our radar. Even if the questions around migration have created debate, we have managed to make real progress on various fronts.”

Mr Juncker praised Italy for its “perseverance and its generosity” while dealing with the crisis and promised more coast guards and border guards.

He said states on the edge of Europe “must not be left alone” to fight the crisis, saying Italy “is saving the honour of Europe”.