Next week's implementation of the EU migration and asylum pact is a losing battle - and one where the EU's appeasement with the hard-right risks backfiring when the reforms fail to deliver as promised.

With the EU's already controversial pact on migration's implementation date fast approaching, many member states will face a complex policy net unprepared.

European lawmakers and countries struck a provisional compromise on the reform, which was launched in response to political pressure to curb migration -- paving the way for its…