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Today, Brussels gears up for the European Council summit on Thursday and Friday. Predictably, flames are being fanned by Viktor Orbán, who is holding up a new EU arms financing package for Ukraine – to the tune of €6.6bn.
Meanwhile, Ursula Von Der Leyen mentions the possibility of "designated safe third countries" in a letter to EU leaders ahead of the summit. The idea, floated in the EPP manifesto, says that "anyone applying for asylum in the EU could also be transferred to a safe third country and undergo the asylum process there."
It's also been widely criticised by civil rights defenders, Nikolaj Nielsen reports. The Left dubbed it the "Rwanda clause", in reference to failed attempts by the UK to outsource asylum to the land-locked east African nation – where, incidentally, Human Rights Watch also documented an "entrenched culture of torture and ill-treatment."
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