What’s the deal with the EU and migration?

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After long negotiations the #European Union finally reached an agreement on the #migration rules to be implemented. However, there are some questions raised on how ethical these stricter #laws will be. CGTN’s Giles Gibson reports. #EU

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00:00 After years of negotiating, the EU reached a migration deal at the end of 2023.

00:05 It includes a long list of measures designed to toughen up the EU's frontiers,

00:09 including border detention centres. But migrant rights groups say it will increase human suffering.

00:15 While the number of migrants taking small boats from Mauritania to the Spanish Canary

00:20 Islands off the west coast of Africa surged over the course of last month,

00:24 Ursula von der Leyen and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez are visiting the country

00:29 to offer more funding as well as to assist in developing the country's renewable energy sector.

00:35 Well, there's still six months to go until the elections, but far-right parties all over Europe

00:39 are currently doing very well in polling. And we also had elections in the Netherlands last year,

00:45 when the far-right politician Geert Wilders led his party to a stunning victory

00:50 off the back of promising draconian immigration reforms.

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