Austria on Wednesday backed out of a UN pact on migration over concerns that it will blur the line between legal and illegal migration.
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in July by all 193 UN member nations except the United States, which backed out in 2017.
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Hungary also backed out of the pact.
Hungary’s right-wing government, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a hard-liner on immigration, has said it will not sign the final document at a ceremony in Morocco in December.
Poland, which has also clashed with Brussels by resisting national quotas for asylum seekers, is considering the same step.
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“We have decided that we will not join the pact,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, a conservative and an immigration hard-liner who…
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