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EU negotiators have reached agreement on rules aimed at spreading the cost and responsibility for hosting asylum seekers across the bloc, limiting the number of people coming in and making it easier to deport those whose claims fail.

The controversial accord paves the way for a definitive agreement scheduled to be reached before European parliament elections in June and follows years of failed attempts to overhaul the bloc’s outdated asylum rules.

While EU officials celebrated the deal, however, human rights groups including Amnesty, Oxfam, Caritas and Save the Children have criticised the changes, saying in an open letter that the package would create a “cruel system” that is unworkable.

People regarded as a security risk or whose asylum claims are considered likely to fail – including women and children – can be held in border detention centres and face accelerated deportation.

But Amnesty International’s EU office said on Wednesday the rules would lead to “a surge in suffering”, weakening the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and others, worsening existing legislation and failing to address actual problems.

Formal agreement on all 10 points of the plan, the outline of which was initially hammered out by interior ministers earlier this year after overcoming opposition from Hungary and Poland, must be reached by February, officials and MEPs have said.

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