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Migration and Home Affairs
  • 11 October 2024

Questions and answers on the Pact on Migration and Asylum

General questions

Secure external borders

Robust screening

Eurodac asylum and migration database

Border procedure and returns

Crisis protocols and action against instrumentalisation

Fast and efficient procedures

Clear asylum rules

Guaranteeing people's rights

EU standards for refugee status qualification

Effective system of solidarity and responsibility

Permanent solidarity framework

Operational and financial support

Clearer rules on responsibility for asylum applications

Preventing secondary movements

Embedding migration in international partnerships

Preventing irregular departures

Fighting migrant smuggling

Cooperation on readmission

Promoting legal pathways