European Commission delays decision on asylum seeker quotas

The European Commission volition not conscionable the deadline to follow its study connected migration successful the EU implicit the erstwhile year, which volition service arsenic the ground for decisions connected the substance astatine the bloc's level, Euronews has learned.

“The Commission volition instrumentality much clip to fine-tune the report, which should beryllium adopted soon, successful the adjacent weeks”, interior sources told Euronews, explaining that consultations with subordinate states are inactive ongoing.

The EU enforcement was required, done caller regulations, to follow the migration study by Wednesday and to walk it to the European Parliament and the Council.

The European Annual Asylum and Migration Report should see an appraisal of the wide migratory concern crossed EU countries, specified arsenic the fig of asylum applications, the fig of persons granted planetary protection, irregular entries, and reception capacity.

It volition designate immoderate EU countries arsenic being “under migratory pressure”, “at hazard of migratory pressure” oregon “facing a important migratory situation”. This designation would pave the mode for a alleged solidarity mechanism, nether which asylum seekers would beryllium relocated to different subordinate states.

Alongside the report, the Commission plans to found an Annual Solidarity Pool to find the full fig of asylum seekers to beryllium relocated and the magnitude each subordinate authorities should allocate.

Together, the study and the solidarity excavation would beryllium the ground for processing the strategy of "mandatory solidarity" envisaged successful the Pact connected Migration and Asylum, the large betterment of migration argumentation adopted successful 2024.

This “mandatory solidarity” should beryllium provided by each subordinate authorities successful proportionality to its colonisation and full GDP. This means that the astir salient and wealthiest EU countries are asked to bash much to negociate the EU asylum system.

According to this system, EU members' governments could take among hree options to conscionable the needs outlined successful the solidarity pool: relocate a definite fig of asylum seekers to their ain territory, wage €20,000 per idiosyncratic they bash not relocate, oregon concern operational enactment successful subordinate states nether migratory pressure.

According to the regulations, each solidarity excavation should see astatine slightest 30,000 relocations and €600 cardinal successful fiscal contributions.

Once projected by the Commission, the Annual Solidarity Pool indispensable beryllium approved by the EU subordinate states, which tin cull the connection lone with a qualified bulk — meaning astatine slightest 15 countries retired of 27 representing astatine slightest 65% of the full EU colonisation person to accidental no.

Criticising the Commission's nonaccomplishment to conscionable the deadline, German lawmaker Birgit Sippel, 1 of the starring MEPs successful the negotiations connected the migration pact, announced connected societal media that she is calling for an urgent gathering successful the European Parliament's Committee connected Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

According to the mid-year reappraisal of the European Union Agency for Asylum, Germany mislaid the apical spot among EU countries for the astir asylum requests successful the archetypal fractional of 2025. France (78,000) and Spain (77,000) some received much applications than Germany, which has been the starring destination for asylum seekers successful caller years.

Spain is the EU state that has granted the highest fig of protection status to asylum seekers successful the 2nd 4th of 2025 (16,060, 24.4% of the EU total), up of France (14,220, 21.6%), Germany (13,450, 20.5%), and Italy (7,360, 11.2%).