Very encouraging news from the Turkish Weekly! It seems that many Iraqis who fled to Europe in recent years are considering going home to Iraq. The Iraqi government expects many to return this summer after the school year ends in Europe.
Iraq is negotiating with the European Union on a proposed memorandum of understanding to combat illegal immigration and repatriate Iraqi refugees willing to return home.
At least one European Union country, Germany, is helping pay for the program called “incoming generation.”
Iraqi Migration and Displacement Minister Abdul-Samad Sultan told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq (RFI) that Iraq has received 10 million euros ($12.5 million) from Germany in support of the ministry’s “incoming generation” program designed to help returnees reintegrate into Iraqi society.
He pointed out that in Denmark alone more than 300 Iraqi refugees wish to return and are awaiting money from the program to do that.
Sultan told RFI that the summer months are expected to see Iraqi refugees returning en masse from neighboring countries as the school year ends.
Hey, we need a plan like this one! As I said in a previous post, lets get together an airlift home for any Iraqis unhappy with their life in America. I don’t know it for sure, but unlike Boise, I bet the economy is booming in Baghdad.