Negotiators from the Council of the EU and European Parliament reached a political agreement on Thursday 29 June on the main guidelines of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). This office is being requested to transform itself into European Asylum Agency, as proposed by the Commission in 2016 as part of its “asylum” package.
Negotiators from Parliament and the Maltese Presidency of the Council reached this institutional agreement on Wednesday 28 June but still needed to obtain the...