The European Commission’s newly released Pact on Migration and Asylum aims to address the imbalances in member states’ burdens related to migrant arrivals and streamline the asylum process. This reached a new level with the migration crisis of 2014–2015. The views expressed in GMF publications and commentary are the views of the author alone. In September, the European Commission unveiled the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, a series of long-awaited measures to reform the EU migration regime. In 2018 the figures were 7,280, and 615. Migration has been an ongoing issue within the EU for decades. Or the concerns of other EU Member States, which are … The New Pact on Migration and Asylum aims to take cooperation between member states and the EU to a new level, through reform of the internal regime and further engagement with third countries in order to avoid other crises in the future. While the tools developed, such as the Global Approach to Migration and Management, paid more attention to migrants’ needs, the adoption of the New Agenda on Migration saw the approach go from being “migrant-centered” to being “migration-centered.” It focused almost entirely on the necessity to curb migration, relegating to the background other essential aspects such as development strategies. This is intensified by the proposal to encourage member states to increase the use of the “safe third country” notion, leading to the expulsion of legitimate asylum seekers to countries outside the EU where their rights are not always guaranteed. The legislative package related to the pact includes a proposal for a regulation dealing with crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum, aimed at establishing a mechanism for dealing with mass influxes and irregular arrivals of third-country nationals in a Member State. The European Union has called for a compulsory system across the bloc to manage migration, after years of division over how to respond to a big influx of migrants and refugees. This decision was made following the death of 33 Turkish soldiers by a Syrian government airstrike. EU funding for refugees and migration issues outside the EU, amounting to over € 9 billion since 2015, has proven to be indispensable to the delivery of the EU’s migration objectives. The same situation is true for Mali: in 2015, the returns ordered were 3,505 and those carried out 165. Produced by the EU agencies Frontex, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and Europol, they give the agencies' impression of migration, asylum and migrant smuggling trends in 2020, and what may come in the year ahead. Finally, until the screening procedure is completed, the person will not be considered as having legally entered the state’s territory, leading to a stronger linkage between asylum and expulsion. This is often done without considering the countries’ specificities and the consequences of these policies, leading to dangerous results, particularly in countries where cross-border economies and workforce mobility represent a significant economic opportunity. The assessment procedure’s duration is fixed at a maximum of five days, during which the applicants will have to stay in designated facilities near the transit zone. Whose Pact? 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On the eve of the launch of the presentation of the European Commission’s new Pact on Migration and Asylum, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the International Organization for Migration, are appealing to … Migration is a complex issue, with many facets that need to be weighed together. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is organising a virtual hearing on the new Pact on migration and asylum, with the aim to provide an understanding of the key elements of the pact and evaluate its impact on the European migration and asylum framework. The idea is that EU agencies are directly involved in the implementation of EU migration and asylum policies on the ground, prefiguring an integrated administration where the national and EU levels cooperate in the decision-making process. Intergovernmentalising EU asylum and migration policies The idea of the Pact, as originally advanced by . The European Commission has proposed a new Pact on Migration and Asylum for the European Union in the hope that it will solve the deep-seated political crisis that … The European Union remains fundamentally divided over the question of migration into the continent and has been so for years. Sign up to receive emailed newsletters, announcements, and event notifications. New Pact on Migration and Asylum On 23 September 2020, the Commission presented a New Pact on Migration and Asylum, setting out a fairer, more European approach to … Over the last 20 years, the EU has slowly but consistently moved forward in search of a comprehensive approach to immigration that could address the phenomenon in the regions of origin and transit. The Dublin system’s hierarchical criteria, including the much-criticized illegal-entry provision, remains in force. This is rooted in the resistance that many member states have to the principles of redistribution and solidarity, as the past failed reforms in this area show. While the pact also envisages the adoption of measures to encourage legal migration, these look underdeveloped. by mixing up key questions with (complex) details and using sometimes a political cant, the New Pact on Migration and Asylum could have been a document laying down twenty years after the Tampere conclusions new foundations for the migration … The safety of people who seek international protection or a better life, the concerns of countries at the EU’s external borders, which worry that migratory pressures will exceed their capacities and which need solidarity from others. On 23 September 2020, the European Commission presented its New Pact on Migration and Asylum, accompanying it with an ambitious statement of intent. 22 September 2020 | Español | Français | عربي. During her first State of the Union address, she said: “We will abolish the Dublin System.”. According to the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), one of the world’s largest and leading displacement NGOs, the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum suggests a wide range of worrying propositions when it comes to the treatment of people seeking protection in the European Union. At the end of September, the EU Commission (EC) announced its proposals for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum… The new solidarity mechanism in the new pact seeks to ensure that “all contribute through solidarity” and to implement a new “mandatory flexible solidarity system.” This leaves to member states the choice to decide how to show solidarity in three possible ways: relocation of applicants, return sponsorship, or capacity building and operational support. The Pact will serve as a policy anchor for the EU’s Multi-annual Financial Framework 2021-2027 adopted last July, which included an expanded budget for Frontex, an Integrated Border Management Fund, and an Asylum and Migration Fund. In her 2019 agenda for the EU, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated her willingness to get rid of the regulation. European Commission, “COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on a New Pact on Migration and Asylum COM (2020) 609 final”, European Commission, 23 September 2020, p.5 Deciphering the European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum. This would have been a good starting point to build a more substantial solidarity mechanism. This will easily push states to resort to detention during the envisaged screening period, worsening the conditions migrants have to face. From that moment on, the EU deliberately acted through externalization, as exemplified by the EU-Turkey agreement, the New Agenda on Migration, and the Migration Partnership Framework (MPF). The importance given to readmissions is paramount, as the European Commission clearly states that migration rules can be credible only if those who do not have the right to stay in the EU are effectively returned. In case a member state committed to return sponsorship fails to execute the return in eight months, it will have to relocate the individuals within its territory. To this end, it envisages that visa facilitation, development cooperation, trade policies, and investments should be put at the core of relations with third countries in the field of migration. This is a continuation of what the EU is already doing with the MPF, which includes a robust conditionality clause linking development policies to the cooperation of a third country government with EU migration goals. In these cases, other member states would have to commit to the mandatory relocation of applicants under international protection or to return sponsorship. A group of unaccompanied children prepare to check in for their flight from Athens to Lisbon on 7 July, under an EU relocation scheme. This is due to the inconsistency of member states’ policies toward third countries and has occurred despite the strong usage of conditionality. This is the result of months of consultations with member states and other institutions in an attempt to reconcile the different perspectives in migration … A Pact for Europe starts in Europe The Pact is an opportunity to improve asylum systems in Europe, to greatly expand safe and legal channels, and to mobilise EU support for inclusion. It is the first contribution to a Forum organised in the Ultimately, the question about whether the EU enacts a more humane migration and asylum policy might be more about choosing to enforce existing conventions, agreements and laws – such as the 1951 Refugee Convention, the European Agenda on Migration, the Global Compact for Migration and EU asylum laws – than putting forward a New Pact. It sets out improved and faster procedures throughout the asylum and migration system. Instead of a Commission communication detailing what should be done in the short term (2020-2021 following the Roadmap accompanying the New Pact!) The Pact will thus promote securitisation in the Mediterranean without generating meaningful change. The new pact also envisages a crisis-response mechanism in case some member states face a mass arrival of irregular migrants or face a political crisis sparked by force majeure. 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