BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union was poised Thursday to agree new rules for how it handles asylum-seekers and irregular migrants after Germany said it would go along with the intensely-negotiated package.
EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson said"no main obstacles" remain on the thorny issue after a meeting of the bloc's interior ministers, and formal agreement would come"in a few days".
At the same time, the European Union will seek to speed up processing of asylum applications so that migrants deemed inadmissible are returned to their country of origin or of transit, and maximum detention times for migrants in border centres would be lengthened from the current 12 weeks. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in Berlin that his country needed more time to study the latest text.
The arrival of thousands of asylum-seekers arriving from Africa on the Italian island of Lampedusa notably spurred urgency to get the revised policy in place. In Budapest, Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, heaped fresh criticism on the migration pact.
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