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EU commissioner for the "European Way of Life", Margaritas Schinas, will be masterminding the new EU Pact on Asylum and Migration when it is published this month (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

EU's new migration pact must protect people on the move

While attention and scrutiny have inevitably turned in recent weeks to the European Commission's efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 has also served to expose the shortcomings in the EU's migration and asylum policies.

The health crisis has amplified the human cost of the EU's approach, which for the last five years, has been overly focused on preventing people from arriving on European soil, and relied on countries outside the Union to enforce the measures to do so. <...

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Imogen Sudbery is Brussels director of the International Rescue Committee. Birte Hald is the Brussels representative of the Danish Refugee Council.

EU commissioner for the "European Way of Life", Margaritas Schinas, will be masterminding the new EU Pact on Asylum and Migration when it is published this month (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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Imogen Sudbery is Brussels director of the International Rescue Committee. Birte Hald is the Brussels representative of the Danish Refugee Council.

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