Editorial: El País

• The European Parliament approved the Asylum and Migration Pact for regulating the arrival of irregular immigrants at a European level.
• The pact took almost a decade of debate and three years of negotiations.
• The agreement strengthens Europe as a place of refuge due to the common rules agreed upon.
• The pact may be seen as a necessary evil rather than a significant advancement.
• There is an automatic principle of solidarity in receiving immigrants, but it allows countries to opt to pay a fine rather than accommodate immigrants.
• The pact reduces the possibilities of asylum and toughens the conditions to achieve it.
• The new deal does not solve the underlying problems causing migration and does not contribute to the prevention of deaths of immigrants in the Mediterranean.

Conclusion: The pact could cause undesired side effects by not solving the underlying problems of migration, and it could lead to more suffering and more dangerous migration routes.

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