The New European Pact on Migration and Asylum

In any case, the management of migration phenomena remains extremely complex, which should lead individual Member States to avoid isolated initiatives that risk making the problem even more difficult for the whole of Europe and failing to find adequate solutions.

For its part, the EU should use the Pact as a basis for building an effective and sustainable migration management mechanism, while respecting legal obligations in this area.

The following text summarises the main elements of the Pact, which introduces some new elements but also leaves some questions unanswered to which the European and national institutions will have to provide answers in the near future.