Global Compact on Immigration

Look what happens when one’s not concentrating, the UN promulgated a global compact on migration, which passed overwhelmingly and then caused a backlash in the political classes in Europe. Here are my notes and links …

Immigration consists of workers, re-uniting families, refugees and in some jurisdictions, students.

1. Global compact for migration at the UN site
2. Opposition To The Global Compact For Migration Is Just Sound And Fury by Frey Lindsay at Forbes
3. The Global Compact for Migration from wikipedia, doesn’t say so much but it has a bunch of references.
4. European states reject divisive UN compact on migration from the FT (£), also the FT stream tagged “EU immigration”.

However, the EU have a treaty,

1. https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/promoting-our-european-way-life/new-pact-migration-and-asylum_en
2. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_1706
3. https://eu.rescue.org/eu-pact

This will be overtaken by the response to the Ukraine War.