BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – On Wednesday, European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica said that the participants of the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan had pledged to disburse $15.2 billion to Afghanistan over the next four years.
"As far as I know an unspoken arrangement on repatriating dozens of thousands of Afghans in exchange for financial aid has been reached," the source said.
Another source in the EU institutions dismissed the allegations, citing the statement of EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini who said that there had never been any connections between EU aid to Afghanistan and efforts to tackle migration.
The number of Afghan refugees in the European Union cedes only to the number of refugees from Syria, as the country is suffering from confrontation between government forces and continuing Taliban insurgency.
