European Parliament votes yes on controversial Asylum and Migration Pact

Today, the European parliament voted to adopt the contentious Asylum and Migration Pact, which includes reforms to the EURODAC biometric database and how biometrics are collected from minors. The president of the European parliament, Roberta Metsola, followed the vote with a simple statement: “History made.”

In a press briefing on the controversial pact this week, a group of EU rapporteurs from parliament said the pact is three and a half years in the making, the result of “difficult and …

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