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Significance Alarmed by an increase of irregular border crossings, rising numbers of asylum seekers and pressures by far-right parties, several EU governments are contemplating ideas to externalise asylum to third countries. Impacts A victory for Labour in the UK election would potentially lead to the scrapping of the UK-Rwanda deal. The EU is reaching its limits in terms of its capacities to control and discourage irregular migration. The prospects of the far right in power the Netherlands, Portugal and Austria this year could further weaken EU unity on migration.
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