EU Clinches Long-Sought Pact on Contentious Migration Rules
- Deal comes after two days and nights of negotiations
- Germany says it didn’t get provisions aimed at protecting kids
Border control guards during checks at a crossing on the German/Polish border.
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The European Union reached an agreement on an overhaul to its rules for tackling immigration crises as it seeks to streamline asylum procedures and boost returns of people who fail to obtain the right to stay in the bloc.
“It’s been a long road to get here. But we made it,” Margaritis Schinas, an EU vice president in charge of migration issues, said Wednesday in a post on X. “Europe is finally delivering on migration.”