Since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016, the European Union has been struggling to find a common and effective approach to managing migration and asylum.
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a major migration deal, bringing the landmark legislation within an inch of approval as Europe’s political center tries to fend-off an ascendant far-right ahead of key elections.
Since more than million people sought refuge in Europe in 2015-2016, the European Union has been struggling to find a common and effective approach to managing migration and asylum, with wide divides between those who opened their doors and those who slammed them shut. In recent years, anti-migrant sentiment has soared across the continent and the far-right has seized on it, pushing the issue into the political mainstream and narrowing that gap.
“After nearly a decade of blockade... it is done. Europe will manage migration in an orderly way, and on our terms,”, the European Commission vice president overseeing migration policy, posted on X. Though the pact has been poured over for years now, it is not clear how its key provisions will work. It is not immediately obvious, for instance, how the screening process will be streamlined without violating peoples’ right to claim asylum, or how the new rules will help increase the proportion of people ordered to leave who are actually deported.Human rights groups and refugee advocates are alarmed by the changes, including rules forcing children as young as six to provide biometric data.
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