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Explainer: Everything you need to know about today’s EU vote on migration pact
MEPs will have their final say today on a landmark overhaul of EU asylum and migration rules. Despite having an opt out, Ireland intends to opt in. So how will it all work?
The EU has been trying to agree on new asylum rules for the best part of a decade in the face of a ramp-up in violence in north Africa and Syria. More recently, wars in Ukraine and Gaza have galvanised support for a more wide-ranging solution to help ease the pressure on frontline reception countries including Italy, Malta, Greece, Spain and Hungary. But the growth in populist, far right and anti-immigrant sentiment has done more ...
