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Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday this week in favour of toughening migration rules in the EU. The result delighted the conservative and nationalist bloc but infuriated the left thus has highlighting a major rift between right-wing and left-wing MEPs.
The vote is a counterpoint to the European Migration Pact which came into force recently and angered the political right by imposing on EU member states a duty to accept quotas of illegal immigrants.
The new rules on deporting people who have no legal right to be in EU nations, which include speeding up the deportation of bogus asylum seekers, boat people, visa overstayers, fake students, and anyone else who entered Europe illegally whose claims for sanctuary have been rejected, were originally proposed by the European Commission last year amid growing public discontent with an influx of illegal migrants posing as refugees and asylum seekers. The issue has dominated the bloc’s political landscape since 2015 when roughly a million undocumented immigrants entered the EU.
By 2025, the EU migrant population had reached a record 64.2 million, including around 46.7 million people born outside the bloc, according to a recent Berlin-based study using Eurostat and UN data.
Against this backdrop, right-wing parties advocating tougher policies on migration have been steadily gaining ground in multiple member states, including Germany. The mainstream Christian-Democrats and centre-right have had to co-opt some of the rhetoric they had previously denounced.
Among the new measures included in new EU is a clause allowing controversial return hubs outside the bloc and home searches. These are the main points that aroused leftist anger, as conservatives who had previously been 'on message' voted with so called far-right groups to pass the legislation.
The vote confirmed the emergence of a right-leaning majority in Parliament on migration issues. The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) once again aligned with the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN).Several MEPs from the liberal Renew Europe group also back the bill.
The EPP continues to rule out formal cooperation with parties it considers too extreme, including the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and France's National Rally and Vox in Spain. EPP leader Manfred Weber has repeatedly rejected the prospect of formal alliances with such forces
But the EPP sees their votes as crucial for tougher migration legislation, creating an alternative majority to the traditional centrist coalition of the EPP, Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and Renew Europe.
Socialists and left-wing MEPs largely opposed the legislation, arguing that it could undermine migrants' fundamental rights.
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