EU Parliament approves controversial asylum pact after a long debate. An EU MEP from the Greens speaks of symbolic politics – the reform caused controversy.
More than 700 Green politicians sharply criticized the federal government's course with the EU reform. The package, which is around 900 pages long, is less about “what is decided and more about the fact that something is decided” The main goal, explains Erik Marquardt, is to weaken the right, which in his opinion has already proven to be a fallacy in the past.. The EU Parliament approves the new asylum package in the vote on Wednesday. After years of discussions, MPs in Brussels on Wednesday cleared the way for a previously negotiated compromise that is intended to significantly tighten the current rules for migration to the European Union. In June 2023, the Greens submitted an application on the Common European Asylum System to the state council of the German government. According to a letter signed by around 730 party members, to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economics Minister Robert Habeck, the party base criticized a course of “deterrence and isolation”