JHA Ministers want to build a close and permanent collaboration with key migratory transit and origin countries
During the Justice and Home Affairs Council today, Ministers inter alia supported the need to strengthen the external dimension of EU migration policy in order to face the migratory challenges the EU shares with other continents and countries.
JHA Ministers discussed today the need to develop a preventive model which, based on solid funding, would hinder irregular departures. It would be rooted in cooperation with countries of origin and transit and include elements such as joint patrols, joint operational centres, sustained cooperation over time and the development of orderly, regular and safe migration pathways.
Ministers also discussed the Pact on Migration and Asylum. The presidency expressed its satisfaction with the wide support shown by delegations regarding the latest compromise text on the crisis regulation and expressed its confidence that a negotiating mandate could be reached shortly within the Council.
The Council also agreed to extend the temporary protection for people fleeing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine from 4 March 2024 to 4 March 2025.
For further information, please read the press release from the Council.