Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announced today that Montenegro is not participating in a program that would offer rejected asylum seekers in the United Kingdom the opportunity to be sent to the Balkans.
"Montenegro is not participating in this program, but we do not exclude the participation of others from the region," Spajić wrote on the social network X.
The British Independent reported that rejected asylum seekers in the UK could be offered the option of being sent to the Balkans, under plans being considered by the Labour government to address the crisis of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.
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Migration Watch UK reports that, as of yesterday, more than 5.200 migrants had entered Britain via small boats in 2025.
According to British government proposals, the Independent writes, "return centres" abroad would be used to house those whose asylum applications have been rejected.
It would represent a reversal of the Conservatives' failed scheme with Rwanda – under which those who arrived in small boats were given a one-way ticket to that African country, regardless of whether they ultimately qualified for asylum in the UK or not.
According to the Times newspaper, which first reported that this plan was being discussed among ministers, Great Britain could approach Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia.
The Times, citing sources in the British government, reported that London allegedly intends to pay the countries that receive them for each individual migrant.
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