‘Where will I go?’: Afghan refugees in Germany fear Taliban’s diplomatic return

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The National, 10 August 2026

AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this look at Germany’s and the EU’s evolving deportation-motivated relations with the Taleban regime.

Generally, European governments are “very non-transparent” when discussing the forced return of Afghans, Mr Ruttig said. “That also shows that they know that there is headwind against that in civil society in our countries,” he said.

“The change in its policy on Afghanistan and on migration in general by the current German government is clearly a result of the growth of the xenophobic far right.”