EU Sets Deadline for Member Countries to Apply New Migration and Asylum Law

Published on June 19, 2024

After years of political wrangling, marked by shifting attitudes toward immigration across the continent, the European Union’s new rules on asylum and migration are finally being rolled out. Eight years in the making, the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum was agreed upon by lawmakers in April, but the finer details had yet to be hammered out by the bloc’s executive, the European Commission. Those bureaucratic details, mostly in the form of demands on member states, were unveiled on June 12 in the commission’s implementation plan. In the “Common Implementation Plan for the Pact on Migration and Asylum,” the European Commission set out key milestones and guidelines for all 27 EU member states to devise national implementation plans for the pact by the end of this year and start applying the new laws by mid-2026....

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