EU approval of 'return hubs' migration reform pushed back to June
EU countries and lawmakers failed to reach a deal on a migration reform to create so-called "return hubs" outside the bloc Thursday, with another round of talks set for June, the European Parliament said.
Member states and parliamentarians agree on the substance of a planned tightening of immigration rules that seeks to improve the repatriation system and boost deportations.
But differences over the timeline for implementation prevented both sides from clinching a deal and setting the reform in motion, parliament and diplomats said.
"All remaining outstanding political issues have been duly discussed and provisionally agreed with the exception of Article 52 regarding the entry into application," the European Parliament said in a statement.
