Implementing the New Pact Solidarity, fundamental rights and effectiveness in asylum and migration management

Challenges and ways forward for implementing the New Pact

Amid a shift from negotiating the reforms to preparing for implementation, this panel discussion explores 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, the discussion will focus on the conditions needed for solidarity to work, fundamental rights safeguards across key files, and effectiveness in policy implementation. It builds on the policy studies published in the context of our New Pact Series. Legal experts, policymakers and civil society will analyse and discuss challenges and ways forward for implementing the New Pact and strengthening the Common European Asylum System to create a resilient asylum system that balances responsibility and solidarity as well as protects human rights and the rule of law.

Programme: 

15:45 Registration

16:00 Opening remarks by: 

• László Andor, Secretary-General, FEPS
• Dr. Tobias Mörschel, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office Brussels

16:10 Input by speakers, followed by a Q&A session: 

• 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)
• Esther Pozo Vera,Head of Unit, Asylum, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (tbc)

Moderator: Alberto-Horst Neidhardt, Senior Policy Analyst and the Head of the European Migration and Diversity programme of the European Policy Centre

17:20 Closing remarks by Ana Catarina Mendes, Member of the European Parliament, S&D (tbc)

17:30 Network reception with the authors of the policy study series on the implementation of the New Pact: 

• Philippe De Bruycker
• Andreina De Leo
• Eleonora Milazzo
• Alberto-Horst Neidhardt
• Lilian Tsourdi

If you are interested in joining our conference, please register here. Please note that the space on-site is limited. Further information is available here.

Venue address: Press Club Brussels Europe (Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Bruxelles)

The event will be held in English only. There will be no interpretation.

For more information, contact our Policy Officer Tobias Beylat: Tobias.Beylat(at)fes.de