The European Union moves ahead with toughening its migration system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : It is everything about bringing our European house in order," said Magnus Brunner, the EU's commissioner for migration.
51% : In May, EU nations endorsed sweeping reforms to the bloc's asylum system, with the European Commission issuing the new Pact on Migration and Asylum.
49% : EU migration policies have hardened, and the number of asylum-seekers is down from record levels.
45% : European Union officials are finalizing a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions European Union officials on Monday were finalizing a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions.
45% : Human rights groups said the EU's toughening of migration rules would mean more misery, not less migration.
43% : There has long been a fierce debate among EU members about migration.
43% : It means that EU nations can deny residency and deport migrants because they either hail from a safe country or could apply for asylum in one outside the EU.
41% : Mainstream political parties hope the pact resolves the issues that have divided EU nations since well over 1 million migrants swept into Europe in 2015, most of them fleeing war in Syria and Iraq.
38% : The EU wouldn't set up or manage such "return hubs," which could be in Europe or elsewhere, but would create the legal framework to allow states to negotiate with non-EU countries willing to take rejected asylum-seekers.
34% : "Instead of investing in safety, protection and inclusion, the EU is choosing policies that will push more people into danger and legal limbo," Silvia Carta, advocacy officer at the Brussels-based Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants.
13% : U.S. President Donald Trump in recent days issued sharp criticism of EU migration policiesas part of a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak.

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