Twenty-three Member States had submitted their national plans for implementing the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ as at 8 January.
Member States were required to do so by 12 December 2024. The Commission is in contact with those that are late, according to a European source, but does not wish to specify which four Member States have not yet submitted their plans.
The ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ comprises a package of 10 new laws to strengthen external borders, better manage migratory crises and speed up the processing of unfounded asylum applications, with associated return decisions. In June, the Commission published a communication setting out 10 ways in which the ‘Pact’ could be implemented to help Member States (see EUROPE 13430/3).
On the basis of these plans, the European Commission is due to draw up the first proposals for the solidarity ‘pool’, which will bring together the pledges of aid made by Member States each year to manage migratory flows.
In December, Commissioner Magnus Brunner also said that he needed all these plans to launch discussions within the Member States on the texts of the ‘Pact’ that could be implemented before 2026. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)