While right-leaning MEPs have hailed the toughening of deportation policies, left-wing lawmakers have called it a “dark chapter for Europe”
Wednesday’s vote in the European Parliament on toughening migration rules in the EU has highlighted a major rift between right-wing and left-wing MEPs.
The new measures, which include speeding up the deportation of rejected asylum seekers, were originally proposed by the European Commission last year amid growing public discontent with a continued influx of illegal migrants. The issue has dominated the bloc’s political landscape since 2015 when roughly a million people entered the EU.
By 2025, the EU migrant population had reached a record 64.2 million, including around 46.7 million people born outside the bloc, according to a recent Berlin-based study using Eurostat and UN data.
Against this backdrop, right-wing parties advocating tougher policies on migration have been steadily gaining ground in multiple member states, including Germany. The mainstream Christian-Democrats and center-right have had to co-opt some of the rhetoric they had previously eschewed.
The new EU law was passed by 418 votes to 218, with 30 abstentions.
The center-right European People’s Party (EPP) joined forces with the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN).
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