Many EU countries(Netherlands, Sweden, Germany etc) are adopting tougher measures against migrants and asylum seekers. These seem to go against EU laws set in Brussels. If individual countries have a more conservative stance why are these views not reflected in EU policy?
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The EU sets minimum laws. Member countries have to be at least that level of stringency. They can go tougher if they want though.
If enough countries want to change the EU’s baseline laws they can, but that’s much more difficult and time-consuming than changing their individual country laws. So even if every member country wants to change the general EU law, it’ll always lag behind individual countries.
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