While right-leaning MEPs have hailed the toughening of deportation policies, left-wing lawmakers have called it a “dark chapter for Europe”
Wednesday’s vote in the European Parliament on toughening migration rules in the EU has highlighted a major rift between right-wing and left-wing MEPs.
The new measures, which include speeding up the deportation of rejected asylum seekers, were originally proposed by the European Commission last year amid growing public discontent with a continued influx of illegal migrants. The issue has dominated the bloc’s political landscape since 2015 when roughly a million people entered the EU.
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