World'Quite horrifying': Afghan economic crisis leaves EU deportees with 'very little' to return to

Europe’s increasingly pragmatic engagement with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers highlights a contradiction between diplomatic non-recognition and political necessity. European governments are quietly broadening talks with the Taliban on migrant deportations, diplomatic representation and economic aid, meeting far more often than is publicly known, a journalist says.

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