First launched in late 2022, the so-called High Level Network for Returns (HLNR) used the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel as a justification to enforce the exchange of data of individuals with a deportation order and flagged as “potential terrorists”.
Look at the biographies of European politicians and there will be American influence. All those cries about Russian influence distract from who makes the decisions.
The EU itself is an American project to prevent French German cooperation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élysée_Treaty about Controversy. Why expect less influence now?
Immigration can also be seen as a tool to divide the population. That’s achieved so it doesn’t have to be supported further. But more diversity threatens the support for imperial politics.
The approval ratings don’t matter anyway because almost all parties are influenced and do what they are told before caring about their voters. People don’t vote now. The media will be used to change the approval before the next election. To win the parties have to do what the media companies want, not what the voters want.