On Tuesday 10 February, the European Parliament approved two legislative texts on ‘safe third countries’ and ‘safe countries of origin’ to speed up asylum and removal procedures (see EUROPE B13795A14). While these proposals, drafted respectively by Lena Düpont (EPP, German) and Alessandro Ciriani (ECR, Italian), were enthusiastically received by the right-wing groups (EPP, ECR, PfE), they were much less successful on the left of the chamber (S&D, Greens/EFA, The Left). The first...