The EU Council definitively adopted, on Tuesday 14 May, the ten texts of the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ presented in 2020 and the ‘Asylum Package’ presented in 2016 reforming European asylum and migration policies.
The European Parliament adopted this wide-ranging reform in plenary session on 10 April (see EUROPE B13388A11). On Tuesday 14 May, Poland and Hungary, unsurprisingly, voted against all the ‘Pact’ and ‘Package’ texts put to the vote; the Czech Republic and...