Loading ...European Parliament Approves Controversial Migration Pact; Furious Nationalists Vow To Bring It Down After EU Elections
The European Parliament has approved the controversial EU Asylum and Migration Pact, which will see countries forced to accept their fair share of new arrivals into the bloc or pay a fine for every migrant they reject.
“Countries will be forced to welcome thousands of migrants into their towns and villages or pay dearly to be spared!”
The majority of lawmakers who passed through the pact were lukewarm on its contents but considered it to be a compromise to end the status quo existing in a Europe plagued by illegal immigration. The argument on the left is that it goes too far in targeting illegal migrants, while those on the right consider it to be yet another sovereignty grab that will do little to solve the crisis.