After three and a half years of tough negotiations, the famous “Pact on Migration and Asylum’ was adopted this Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in the European Parliament. Based on a proposal from the European Commission in September 2020, this series of ten texts strengthens border controls in the EU.
While the Old Continent is facing increasing migratory pressure, with 1.14 million asylum requests in 2023, the Pact also renews the Dublin III regulation which governs the distribution of asylum seekers between Member States. The Pact provides for “screening” of migrants prior to their arrival in the Union, it involves sorting between migrants likely to obtain asylum and others through checks lasting a maximum of seven days. The objective being to be able to return migrants ineligible for the right to asylum to their country of origin or transit, in order to prevent them from remaining in the territory of the Union after having been rejected. It provides for the creation of 30,000 places in dedicated centers to accommodate these migrants, with the objective to receive up to 120,000 migrants per year.