BRUSSELS ¨C Growing support for far-right parties across Europe looks set to shape migration policy in 2025 after a bumper election year in which immigration became a major political battleground.
With the European Union gearing up to implement its revamped asylum pact by 2026, some countries are calling for the rules fast-tracking asylum processes and returns to be sharpened or implemented sooner.
Rights groups say this would risk rolling back people¡¯s rights to seek asylum and put them at risk of arbitrary detention and increased pushbacks by authorities operating on Europe¡¯s external borders.
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