Towards a new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: The challenges ahead

Session

LAW

Description

The constant increase in the waves of irregular migrants and asylum seekers arriving in the EU for almost a decade now has set the immigration and asylum policies in the EU in motion. Therefore, it's long been considered in the EU institutions that the existing European Pact on Immigration and Asylum needs to be changed, all this in order for the EU be able to respond properly to the new challenges the EU itself is facing in this area. The paper will discuss on how the first EU Commission package of reforms (proposed in 2016) for the common European asylum system (CEAS) stalled and due to the disagreements and non-necessary support by the Member States was later replace (in September 2020) by a new pact on migration and asylum offering a comprehensive approach aimed at strengthening and integrating key EU policies on migration, asylum and border management. Further, the paper will consider issues such as: what does the upcoming new Pact on Migration and Asylum provide, what are the challenges ahead towards finding the necessary consensus to approve it, and why still there are some EU member States do oppose it.

Keywords:

Border Management; Migration; Asylum.

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-550-95-6

Location

UBT Lipjan, Kosovo

Start Date

28-10-2023 8:00 AM

End Date

29-10-2023 6:00 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2023.137

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Towards a new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: The challenges ahead

UBT Lipjan, Kosovo

The constant increase in the waves of irregular migrants and asylum seekers arriving in the EU for almost a decade now has set the immigration and asylum policies in the EU in motion. Therefore, it's long been considered in the EU institutions that the existing European Pact on Immigration and Asylum needs to be changed, all this in order for the EU be able to respond properly to the new challenges the EU itself is facing in this area. The paper will discuss on how the first EU Commission package of reforms (proposed in 2016) for the common European asylum system (CEAS) stalled and due to the disagreements and non-necessary support by the Member States was later replace (in September 2020) by a new pact on migration and asylum offering a comprehensive approach aimed at strengthening and integrating key EU policies on migration, asylum and border management. Further, the paper will consider issues such as: what does the upcoming new Pact on Migration and Asylum provide, what are the challenges ahead towards finding the necessary consensus to approve it, and why still there are some EU member States do oppose it.