Following the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum reforms, the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is about to formally begin its new life, with the policy machine now in motion. The policy cycle officially starts in October 2025 when the European Commission presents its first Annual Asylum and Migration Report and transmits to the Council a proposed allocation and distribution of solidarity, based on the needs identified in the Annual Report. It will then be up to the Commission to secure buy-in from member states and the Council to reach an agreement on the “Solidarity Pool”.

Following the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum reforms, the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is about to formally begin its new life, with the policy machine now in motion. The policy cycle officially starts in October 2025 when the European Commission presents its first Annual Asylum and Migration Report and transmits to the Council a proposed allocation and distribution of solidarity, based on the needs identified in the Annual Report. It will then be up to the Commission to secure buy-in from member states and the Council to reach an agreement on the “Solidarity Pool”.

Migrants were detained in Albanian centres under an Italy-Albania deal, managed by the Medihospes cooperative on a €133m contract, but legal, operational, and ethical issues persist, an investigation ...

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