The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, confirmed to Politico on Friday 19 June that the Pact on Asylum and Migration would not be presented before the EU27 have given concrete expression to their agreement on the recovery plan, which at this stage postpones the Pact until mid/end of July.
“We are in the process of finalising the proposal, but many Member States have asked us to wait until they have reached a preliminary agreement” on the budget, she explained. The...