The future Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) has received another serious blow. On Wednesday 31 October, the Austrian government announced its decision not to sign and “thus not to bind Austria”, states a press release from the government coalition. It adds: “Austria will continue to develop its own laws on all migration issues”.
The United States and Hungary had already turned their backs on the non-binding pact, approved at the UN in July and which...