After years of negotiations, the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration entered into force last week.
Intended to establish a “European solution” to migration challenges, it will fundamentally reshape how people arriving in Europe seek protection, how asylum claims are processed, and how responsibility is shared between EU states.
But while governments have spent years debating the legislation itself, far less scrutiny has been given to how it will be implemented on the ground.
In theory, member states have spent the past two years preparing for this moment.
National Implementation Plans were due to be submitted to the European Commission by December 2024, detailing how countries intend to put the pact into practice.
