Implementing the New Pact

Amid a shift from negotiating the reforms to preparing for implementation, this panel discussion explored the comprehensive changes introduced by the New Pact on Migration and Asylum and ways to ensure their proper implementation over the coming years.

With member states due to finalise their national implementation plans before the end of the year, this event from 15:45-17:30 MEZ (17:30-18:30 MEZ networking reception) focused on the conditions needed for solidarity to work, fundamental rights safeguards, and effectiveness in policy implementation, building on policy studies on files released since the adoption of the reforms. Further, the event buildt on the policy studies “The New Pact on Migration & Asylum” released by FEPS in cooperation with FES EU Office and EPC over the course of this year.

Legal experts, policymakers and civil society analysed and discussed challenges and ways to implement the New Pact and strengthen the Common European Asylum System. It also looked at ways to create a resilient asylum system that balances responsibility, solidarity, protects human rights and the rule of law.

SPEAKERS 

Building on the results of the Progressive Migration Group, this conference allowed for an open debate with critical stakeholders including:

• Evangelia (Lilian) TSOURDI, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University
• Philippe DE BRUYCKER, Professor at the Law Faculty and Centre for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
• Catherine WOOLLARD, Director, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
• Desislava SITARSKA-TOMOVA, Policy Officer, Asylum, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs 
• Ana Catarina MENDES, Member of the European Parliament, S&D Group
• László ANDOR, Secretary-General, FEPS 
• Philipp M. GOLDBERG, Deputy Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office Brussels
• Alberto-Horst NEIDHARDT, Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the European Migration and Diversity programme of the European Policy Centre

The conference was followed by a networking reception 17:30 – 18:30 MEZ with the authors of policy studies “The New Pact on Migration & Asylum”:

• Evangelia (Lilian) TSOURDI, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University
• Andreina DE LEO, Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (PhD) at Maastricht University Faculty of Law
• Eleonora MILAZZO, Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute
• Alberto-Horst NEIDHARDT, Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the European Diversity and Migration programme at the European Policy Centre
• Philippe DE BRUYCKER, Professor at the Law Faculty and Centre for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

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For more information regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact Julia Wild, Project Officer (julia.wild@feps-europe.eu)