""We have to speed up," said EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner, "to give the people the feeling that we have control over what is happening.""
""Instead of investing in safety, protection, and inclusion, the EU is choosing policies that will push more people into danger and legal limbo," said Silvia Carta of PICUM, an NGO that helps undocumented migrants."
""We've been moving forward very quickly," the diplomat said, speaking as others on condition of anonymity."
""a widely shared political wish""
Interior ministers in Brussels greenlighted a package of migration measures proposed by the European Commission that require European Parliament approval before coming into force. Measures would allow opening centres outside EU borders for migrants with rejected asylum applications, impose harsher penalties including longer detention for migrants who refuse to leave, and permit returning migrants to countries considered "safe" even if not their country of origin. The moves respond to souring public opinion on migration and far-right electoral gains across the bloc. Irregular entries to Europe declined by around 20 percent in 2025 compared with last year but have not reduced political pressure to act. Denmark's EU presidency has pushed for stricter rules, an EU diplomat said there is "a widely shared political wish" to press ahead, and some member states, including France, have expressed legal scepticism.
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