The pact includes provision for a mechanism that allows for the annual relocation of at least 30,000 migrants. Countries that choose not to accept and process asylum applications will be obliged to ...

The new Asylum Procedure Regulation aims to speed up the processing of claims of asylum applicants arriving from safe third countries.

On May 14, EU member states took the last hurdle to a stricter, controversial migration and asylum pact after nearly a decade of wrangling. The overhaul comes into force from 2026. However, 15 EU ...

VIENNA — Austria will follow the United States and Hungary in backing out of a United Nations migration pact over concerns it will blur the line between legal and illegal migration, the right-wing ...

Officials meeting 12-week timeline for ‘safe-country’ cases and those with less than 20 per cent acceptance rate ...

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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Friday it was unlikely Poland would support the UN migration pact set to be adopted in December, following rejections by Washington, Budapest and Vienna and a ...

Attempts to reform EU migration rules date back to the 2015 refugee crisis, but there are doubts about how the new rules will ...

Belgiums Prime Minister Charles Michel was left leading a minority administration on Sunday after the Flemish nationalist party quit the ruling coalition over his support of a UN migration pact. The ...

The billions allocated to border security and surveillance technology — and paid to the same arms and defence companies ...