An international conference wrapped up in Morocco with fewer countries than expected signing a key compact on migration. Our Mariam Zaidi gets reaction from European countries - many facing their own border crisis.

Cheers for German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Morocco. She hailed the new United Nations migration pact – signed by over 160 countries - as a step towards ensuring better human rights for all refugees and migrants. But Europe's migration crisis – which erupted in 2015 and fractured European solidarity - was her undoing after 13 years at Europe's helm. Merkel will leave politics by 2021. From Germany, to Italy, Austria and throughout central Europe the continent's political landscape has been polarised by migration and fuelled support for populists and nationalists.

SKA KELLER GREEN GERMAN MEP, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "The EU member states do not have any problem with illegal migration because the numbers are very small. However, the topic is being used by far-right parties to divide societies, to win votes and to stir fear. That is a very dangerous political road to go."

Just last Sunday, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel was forced to reshuffle his government to prevent it from imminent collapse. His far-right coalition partners the New Flemish Alliance quit the government over a row over the UN migration pact.

MARK DEMESMAEKER BELGIAN FLEMISH NATIONALIST MEP, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "They keep telling us it's non-binding. But it's also not open-ended. It means eventually it can have an impact on our jurisdiction. It's a soft law that can sneak into our jurisdiction. It's so opaque that judges can interpret it in their own way and the vision of the compact is contrary to our vision on immigration. We are not against immigration but we want to control it."

The UN Global compact for migration aims to safely manage migration through cooperation on all levels – national and international. But it also looks to re-enforce existing human rights. Along with ensuring social and economic benefits.

CLAUDE MORAES BRITISH SOCIALIST MEP, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "The EU supports the UN migration compact in its overwhelming majority. There are one or two member states that have opted out including the Austrian government that currently has the Presidency of the EU. And that's symptomatic of right wing governments of the European Union who are using the global compact as a way of attacking multilateral approaches to migration. It's a signal that they don't want to have a multinationalism rather an isolation approach to immigration. That's a bad sign."

MARIAM ZAIDI BRUSSELS "On Monday Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said signing the migration pact puts his country on the right side of history. But with 8 of the EU's 28 countries rejecting the agreement, is Europe's credibility on migration at stake. Mariam Zaidi, CGTN, Brussels."