EU Migration Chief Urges Opponents of UN Pact to Reconsider

The European Union's migration commissioner is calling on member countries that have turned against a U.N.-backed migration pact to reconsider their opposition. A conference in Marrakech, Morocco on Dec. 10-11 is due to approve the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which was finalized in July with only the U.S. staying out. But the non-binding accord is drawing strong opposition from nationalists in Europe and elsewhere, and EU countries including Hungary,...

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