The European Parliament has given the green light to the first list of “safe countries of origin” whose citizens will no longer be able to seek asylum in the EU.
The list includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia as well as EU candidate countries such as the Western Balkans nations, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
I agree with you in that the priority must be combatting the far right, but at the same time, we need to be cautious of moving the goalposts and Overton window. Does immigration fall under it? Hard to say.