The new plan would also create common regulations across the bloc so that immigration authorities can enforce a deportation order issued by another EU country.

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed that member countries be allowed to set up centres in non-EU countries where migrants whose asylum claims were rejected would await deportation.

The new regulation on deportations represents the first tangible result of the outsourcing trend that EU leaders endorsed last year. View on euronews

The European Union will create a common set of procedures for migrant deportations. It has also proposed to create "return hubs" as part of a controversial plan to deport rejected asylum seekers to third countries.