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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

MEPs to vote on divisive migration policy in ‘big moment for Europe’

A small boat is seen sitting low on the water
One MEP said that the legislation did not do anything to reduce the number of people killed while making perilous crossings. Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

The European parliament is to vote on Wednesday on sweeping new laws to overhaul its migration policy amid renewed criticism that it is feeding the agenda of the extreme right rather than protecting vulnerable people.

Ylva Johansson, the home affairs commissioner who was the driving force behind the legislation, said on Tuesday that with the reforms aimed at “managing migration in an orderly way”, the 27-member bloc was taking a step towards neutralising the populist far right.

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