Responding to the vote on the migration and asylum pact, ETUC Confederal Secretary Giulio Romani said:
“The people saying this deal will ‘increase solidarity’ can’t know the meaning of the word.
“It will see more people fleeing wars, extreme poverty and, increasingly, climate disasters, being treated as prisoners.
“And it will inevitably lead to an increase in abuses of fundamental rights, illegal pushbacks, and returns to unsafe countries.
“This will do nothing to help working people. In fact, it will see more money being wasted on building a fortress Europe at a time when the EU wants to cut social and climate spending through austerity 2.0.
“Regularisation of migrants would do more than any other measure to help working people, both migrant and local, by stopping employers from exploiting undocumented migrants to undercut wages.”
