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Brussels: European Union officials on Monday were finalising a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions.

There has long been a fierce debate among EU members about migration. Since a surge in asylum-seekers and other migrants to Europe a decade ago, public debate on the issue has shifted, and far-right parties have gained political power. EU migration policies have hardened, and the number of asylum-seekers is down from record levels.

US President Donald Trump, in recent days, issued sharp criticism of EU migration policies as part of a new national security

strategy that paints European allies as weak.

Ministers meeting in Brussels quickly agreed to a “safe third country” concept and a list of safe countries of origin,

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