Despite a nerve-wreaking buildup leading up to the vote on Wednesday (10 April) afternoon, and the final agreement to no one’s liking, the EU’s asylum and migration pact ultimately passed with a thin majority on certain parts of the package.

Now, we must make sure that what has been agreed to is fully implemented in all our Member States, and that implementation goes hand in hand with the respect for our shared humanity,” Parliament’s President Roberta Metsola said after the vote.

It is not a perfect solution, it is a compromise that we in the European Parliament are accepting with a heavy lump in our throats, but was absolutely necessary,” said one of the leading negotiators, Slovakian Socialist MEP Matjaz Nemec.

  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I agree with you that having something clearer and a bit more flexible in place seems like a net positive. Hopefully it gives right wingers less ammo to use in their campaigns (though they are rarely restrained by reality either).

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Hopefully it gives right wingers less ammo

      Yes, I believe that the timing was not a coincidence, as it is before the EP elections. And, like you said, the idea of giving them ammo, although often used as an argument, won’t matter too much as the claims by far right aren’t based on the immediate reality but on fears.