The European Parliament is to vote on Wednesday on a package of stricter asylum and migration rules for the European Union after years of internal dispute. A compulsory solidarity system is the basis of the legislation, requiring all EU member states to take some form of responsibility for managing asylum applications. If an EU country does not want to accept people applying for asylum, then that member state must give alternative assistance like financial contributions to a support fund. Also, EU member states experiencing significant spikes in applications for asylum may call for the applica…