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Austria deports man to Syria for first time in 15 years

3 juillet 2025 à 18:52

Syrian man, 32, was granted asylum in 2014 but lost refugee status because of a criminal conviction

Austria has returned a Syrian with a criminal conviction to his birth country in what it described as the first such deportation since the fall of the Assad regime.

“The deportation carried out today is part of a strict and thus fair asylum policy,” Austria’s interior minister, Gerhard Karner, said in a statement.

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© Photograph: Erwin Scheriau/APA/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Erwin Scheriau/APA/AFP/Getty Images

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He was the EU’s great Brexit survivor. Can Maroš Šefčovič now pull off a trade deal with Trump?

2 juillet 2025 à 06:00

EU’s longest-serving commissioner faces arguably his sternest test with the clock ticking before 9 July deadline

In May 2019 Maroš Šefčovič was travelling with Donald Trump and his entourage to a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. The then European Commission vice-president in charge of energy had flown with Trump onboard Air Force One, calling his wife as the privilege of a first-time flyer on the presidential plane. Once at the facility, Trump gave a typically rambling speech, in which he name-checked Šefčovič from the stage, pointing into the crowd like a gameshow host: “Maroš, thank you very much. Thank you.”

“Of course,” recalled someone familiar with the day, “when Trump pronounced his name it was a bit of a disaster”. But for a top-ranking official of a multilateral organisation, this warm welcome was probably as good as it gets when it comes to the US president.

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© Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

© Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

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