Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Pact will mandate that the same procedures and procedural standards apply to all asylum applicants across EU member states. [15] The Pact stipulates that migrants illegally entering the EU will undergo identity, health and security checks, including biometric readings of faces and fingerprints , within seven days, with information stored on ...
European Commissioner Ylva Johansson warned member states of legal consequences if they fail to enforce the Pact. [10] The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, also known as the EU Migration Pact [11] [12] or the EU Asylum and Migration Pact, [13] [14] is a set of new European Union rules concerning migration set to take effect in June 2026. [15]
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations endorsed sweeping reforms to the bloc’s failed asylum system on Tuesday as campaigning for Europe-wide elections next month gathers pace, with migration expected to be an important issue. EU government ministers approved 10 legislative parts of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
The overhaul of the EU’s migration system “isn’t perfect”, but a change to handle an increase in asylum numbers is urgently needed, an Irish MEP has said.
On 13 July 2016, the European Commission introduced the proposals to finalise the CEAS' reform. The reform sought to create a just policy for asylum seekers while providing a new system that was simple and shortened. Ultimately, the reform proposal attempted to create a system that could handle normal and impacted times of migratory pressure. [113]
Under the pact, each EU country will be assigned a share - proportional to economy and population - of the total 30,000 asylum-seekers that the bloc is expected to take in per year.
"We have a new pact on migration and asylum, which has been voted upon and confirmed and therefore has to be applied," EU Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said at a press briefing in Brussels.
Category for asylum and immigration law, in the EU Pages in category "European Union asylum and immigration law" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.