The EU’s new Migration Pact will become fully applicable in 8 days.

The EU’s new Migration Pact will become fully applicable in 8 days. The new law will give the European Commission more power over which EU member states will have to take in more asylum seekers or pay significant sums for the asylum seekers’ stay in Europe (the so-called mandatory solidarity mechanism).

On June 12th, the new responsibility rules will replace the Dublin Mechanism which used to decide which countries should deal with specific asylum cases. The old rule was that the first country an asylum seeker enters in Europe is the country that should process his asylum application. Brussels has presented the new system as a “more harmonised European asylum and migration management framework” based on migrant relocation quotas.

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On October 15th, the European Commission will for the first time publish the full European Annual Asylum and Migration Report and its assessment of migratory pressure on each Member State. This launches the new standard annual migration management cycle which begins with data collection from Member States and EU agencies on migration.

The Commission then issues the Report and pressure classifications (countries will be classified as under pressure, at risk or facing a significant migratory pressure) The Commission will then propose the Annual Solidarity Pool, meaning a number of quote migrants that should be shared by EU member states. A High-Level Solidarity Forum will be organized at the end of the year where member states pledge their contributions.

The solidarity pool is a permanent and mandatory mechanism. Contributing states can choose between either receiving their quota migrants, pay €20,000 per non-relocated migrant or take alternative costly measures such as offering operational support, capacity building (e.g. infrastructure, training and equipment for borders and reception). For 2026, the pool was set at 21,000 migrant quota relocations or €420 million.

From 2027, the regulation sets a minimum reference of 30,000 relocations and €600 million, with no fixed upper limit. The size of the Solidarity Pool will depend on the European Commission’s assessed migratory pressure from the number of migrant arrivals and needs of frontline states. It means that if a 2015 European Migration Crisis scenario would be repeatedly at an even larger scale, such as the sudden arrival of for example 10 million asylum seekers in a single year, Brussels won’t stop them at the border but rather take them in and relocate them across EU member states.

Those states will then process their asylum claims and decide on whether to grant them asylum or issue them deportation orders. However, as we all know, most deportation orders are today impossible to execute as migrants either don’t provide their real identities, their home states refuse to take them back or European courts issue rulings saying that their deportation to their home country would be inhumane and out their human rights at risk.

 

While EU Member States will retain implementation roles and will have some ability to choose how to tackle their quota of the migrant Solidary Pool, the framework centralises key elements under EU law, giving the European Commission greater influence over the asylum policies of member states.

 

This shifts from purely national control of migration toward collective EU governance in asylum policy, which reduces individual Member State sovereignty in this area in exchange for burden-sharing at an EU level.