Members of the EU Council’s Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) discussed on Monday 27 September whether to move forward on the text of the ‘Asylum and Migration Pact’ on pre-screening of migrants at external borders by cutting the existing links with the regulation on asylum procedures, in particular with regard to the ‘fiction of non-entry’.
At the discussion, which was intended to feed into the EU Interior Ministers’ debate in Luxembourg on...