Also, in Thursday’s edition: Metsola third term, Bas Eickhout, Taliban, Oil ban, Jozef Síkela
NO DEAL ON EU DEPORTATIONS: Late-night talks in Strasbourg failed to produce a breakthrough on the EU’s flagship returns regulation, the bloc’s proposed overhaul of deportation rules that would pave the way for offshore “return hubs” for migrants.
With negotiators still divided over when the rules should take effect, talks resume today as lawmakers race to seal a deal ahead of a hoped-for vote next month, timed to coincide with the final rollout of the EU’s sweeping asylum and migration pact.
You’re reading Rapporteur on Thursday 21 May. This is Nicoletta Ionta in Brussels, with Eddy Wax in Strasbourg.
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