💥MEPs have adopted the landmark Migration & Asylum Pact💥

-Quicker asylum claims processing
-Screening on arrival incl. health & security checks
-Solidarity in 🇪🇺 w/ flexibility: relocations or financial/alternative support
-Response to crises; voluntary resettlement scheme
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So eventually I got there too, hope to see you @
rbossong.bsky.social

Ok just as a note to my small circle of followers, this is it for me. I will continue reading and use DM on this plattform for the time being, but will not actively contribute here anymore. Musks extremists views are beyond doubt and beyond the pale for his position.

“The level of enthusiasm for EU enlargement and reform is, in reality, quite low. Yet Scholz and Macron realize that unless they do something, the EU could come apart.”

My take for ⁦POLITICOEurope⁩ #granada #EUCO politico.eu/article/in-gra…

🇪🇺⚖️💶🇭🇺🇺🇦 The big rule of law story this week - EU is considering releasing the Hungarian recovery fund to get Orban to stop obstructing aid to Ukraine. A Faustian deal if it happens, trading money for democracy and the rule of law. 1/

Some (legal) thoughts on the Hungary-budgetary conditionality story

The politics are clear - HU is trying to leverage its veto on an unrelated file.

But in a community of *law*, such as the EU, it is important to start assessment from precisely that - the law.

A short🧵

Now that the Council has adopted a position on the Crisis Regulation, the EP will likely unblock negotiations on the remaining New Pact files. Talks will be tricky, as instrumentalization & TPD 2.0 are just two of many dividing points betw Council & EP. consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

The bird is dead and its ghost is openly infringing the rules for neutral media platforms. The EU is not upholding its promises. X/Twitter should either be subject to enforcement of DSA or treated like a publisher in full extent.

Again Musk at it. Unfortunately there are no real alternatives to X yet. But would never ever pay for it..

Malta summit of the EU 9 Mediterranean countries urges EU to stop migration at source euractiv.com/section/migrat…

Medial wurde die wurde #Krisenverordnung zuletzt verzerrt dargestellt. Die Passagen zur Instrumentalisierung wurden erst spät integriert und könnten zur Legitimierung des Ausnahmezustand an Außengrenzen missbraucht werden. Mehr zum Stand der GEAS Reform➡️ swp-berlin.org/publikation/en…

Aus gut informierten Kreisen...? spiegel.de/ausland/deutsc…

And more 'While EU member states failed to finalise a migration deal in Brussels today, on the bloc’s external borders Greece and Turkey have reportedly agreed to a ground-breaking, if unofficial, mini-migration pact.'

Wie auch immer die neuste Volte um die #Krisenverordnung ausgeht, die angestrebte #GEAS Reform steht weiterhin vor großen Herausforderungen swp-berlin.org/publikation/en…

#JHA Council update:
🟢TPD extension until 2025
🟡Discussion (at least) but too soon for agreement on what happens after
🔴No agreement on merged Crisis + Instrumentalisation Reg. 🇩🇪🇮🇹 concerns. But deal is imminent...

#JHA #migration crisis mechanism adopted, but politically fragile without the Italian consent

#JHA #migration crisis mechanism adoption pending on a reply from Rome. #Italy is blocking the agreement this afternoon, together with #Poland and #Hungary but consultations are ongoing

Noch ist unklar, ob das Asyl- und Migrationspaket der EU-Kommission vor den Europawahlen 2024 verabschiedet werden kann. Steffen Angenendt, Nadine Biehler, Raphael Bossong, David Kipp und Anne Koch zeigen Herausforderungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten auf. swp-berlin.org/publikation/en…