The Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council was able to make technical progress on the texts of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, before handing over to the Slovenian Presidency on 1 July.
On 25 June, the former presidency presented a new compromise text on the Regulation on the ‘pre-screening’ of migrants, in which it specifies, among other things, the terms and conditions for the use of detention of persons who are subject to a set of checks on arrival.
Several Member States also...