The die is cast. The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was endorsed on Monday 10 December in Marrakech by some 150 countries out of 195, including most, if not all of the EU Member States, an agreement that has been the subject of numerous tensions in recent weeks.
Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, is all too aware of this having visited Marrakech at the cost of a political crisis that saw the Flemish Nationalist Party (NVA) leave the coalition government on...