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full screen EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson. Stock photo. Photo: Virginia Mayo/AP/TT
One day after the EU’s new asylum and migration pact formally entered into force, the European Commission is now launching its plan for how it will be introduced.
In two years at the latest, the member states need to have adapted to the new common rules on, among other things, reception conditions and asylum procedures that the EU Parliament and the member states nailed so late in May.
– We are eager to implement this. We only have two years to go, says Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson at a press conference in Brussels.
The plan is to be presented to the EU countries’ interior and justice ministers on Thursday, after which all EU countries must have produced their own implementation plans by December at the latest.