The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called on Wednesday 15 September for EU Member States to speed up work on the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’, presented in September 2020 and on which they are moving too slowly and “painfully”.
Referring to the events of recent months on the Lithuanian border with Belarus, but also on the Latvian and Polish borders, the President considered that the Pact provides for “everything required” to manage asylum and...