The European Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining the key strategies, action plans and legislative initiatives that will guide its work throughout the year.  

In the document, the EU Commission states that it will, among other things: (i) intensify efforts to implement the Pact on Migration and Asylum, ensuring the security of EU borders and faster asylum and return procedures, (ii) cooperate closely with eastern and southern neighbours, through comprehensive partnerships, to help prevent illegal migration, (iii) introduce the first five-year European Migration and Asylum Strategy, establishing a strategic and forward-looking framework for continued work under the Pact, (iv) combat smuggling networks and (v) strengthen return procedures for individuals with no legal right to stay in the EU and present a new common approach to returns, with a new legislative framework to accelerate and simplify the return process.

Please read this press release and the EU Commission Work Program 2025 attached below for further details.