The European Union’s new commissioner for migration and internal affairs, Magnus Brunner, was in Athens on Thursday for policy talks with Greece, which has long been one of the major entry points into the bloc for migrants.
Brunner, an Austrian conservative who took up the post late last year, has previously spoken about a need to bolster EU policy on deportations, a controversial issue within the bloc’s 27 member nations. EU lawmakers last year approved a major overhaul of migration laws collectively known as the Pact on Migration and Asylum.
