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Ministers from the member states of the European Union will meet in Brussels on Tuesday to finalize a massive overhaul of the bloc’s migration and asylum laws. The new body of law is the product of years of fierce debate, which came to a head in a tense European Parliament vote on April 11. Protesters disrupted the vote, throwing paper aeroplanes across the chamber and chanting “this pact kills, vote no!” The new law requires all 27 EU member states to take some responsibility for managing asylum applications, but also makes the rules stricter for applicants. It has therefore been attacked bot…