New Pact on Migration and Asylum
2024 European Union agreement
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, also known as the EU Migration Pact or the EU Asylum and Migration Pact, is a set of new European Union rules concerning migration that took effect on 12 June 2026. It compels member states to more evenly share the cost and efforts of hosting migrants and reform European Union asylum and border security procedures, among other provisions.
Legislative process
The European Commission initially proposed the Pact on 23 September 2020. The deal was agreed to on 20 December 2023 between representatives of the elected European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, made up of EU government ministers.
It passed the European Parliament on 10 April 2024, with narrow margins of around 30 votes on some provisions. The Council of the European Union approved the Pact on 14 May 2024, with Hungary and Poland voting against it.
Provisions
The provisions of the Pact apply to migrants caught illegally crossing an external EU border, such as those reaching the shores of Greece, Italy or Spain via the Mediterranean Sea or Atlantic Ocean on boats provided by smugglers; estimated at around 300,000 migrants in 2023. Provisions do not apply to legal migrants to the EU (~3.5 million in 2023) and migrants who arrived legally but overstayed their visas (~700,000 in 2023).
The Pact mandates that the same procedures and procedural standards apply to all asylum applicants across EU member states. The Pact stipulates that migrants illegally entering the EU undergo identity, health and security checks, including biometric readings of faces and fingerprints, within seven days, with information stored on the newly created Eurodac database.
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