ATHENS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Greece welcomed the European Union's (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum, feeling "vindicated" after many years of persistent calls for stronger solidarity within the EU, Greek national news agency AMNA reported on Thursday. A key conclusion was the creation, ...
Migration and asylum elicit intense debate in the EU. The Commission''s New Pact for Migration and Asylum 2020 sought to diffuse some of the divisive issues among Member States by proposing a series of measures, mainly directed at diminishing asylum arrivals. In this article I argue that there...
EU politics is complicated. Getting all 27 member states to agree on key legislation is very challenging. But the EU has to mitigate the refugee crisis, while maintaining a humane asylum policy. The pact must adhere to material reality and take into account the deleterious effec...
ATHENS, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- A holistic, coherent, and fair European approach to migration is the only way forward and member states must agree on a Migration and Asylum pact, a senior official of the European Union (EU) said here Friday. "Greece today manages migration with a clear plan...
EU approves new 'dehumanizing' migration policy Human rights activists protests outside the European Parliament ahead of a vote by lawmakers on the EU's Pact on Asylum and Migration, in Brussels, Belgium on April 10. [Photo/Agencies] The European Parliament approved extensive new legislation to ...
Basilien-Gainche said the pact introduces stringent migration and asylum rules aimed at revamping the European asylum system. However, she said it also blurs the distinction between asylum and migration, subordinating people's fundamental right to asylum to a part of the migration management and bo...
"No one will be satisfied" with the European Commission's new asylum and migration proposal due to be unveiled next Wednesday (23 September), home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson told a group of journalists, including EUobserver, on Thursday (17 September). ...
The Council will also receive an update from the European Commission on the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is currently in the preparatory stages in applying its laws throughout Member States from June 2026. Foreign Affairs Council: 16 December 2024 The December ...
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Effective human rights oversight and accountability must be central to the monitoring mechanism proposed under the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, leading human rights organizations said today in a statement, ahead of the EU’s meeting of the Justic