SAFE – foSter cooperAtion For improving access to protection

This ambition echoes the ones of the European Commission, expressed in the Resolution of 23 September 20202, reiterated on the occasion of the High-level Forum on legal pathways to protection and resettlement cooperation of 29 November 20223. [...] SAFE partners welcome the European Commission’s recommendation of 23 September 2020, part of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, on legal pathways to protection in the EU, promoting the increase in resettlement places and development of complementary pathways; as well as the call of the High-level Forum on legal pathways to protection and resettlement cooperation made on 29 November 2022 for the dev. [...] In this regard, partners regret the absence of any mention of the request by the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) to table a legislative proposal establishing a European Humanitarian Visa14, sent to the Commission in 2018, in the 2020 recommendations part of the Pact. [...] More recently, the Commission has expressed, in its implementing decision on the financing components of the Thematic Facility under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and adoption of the Work Programme for 2023, 2024 and 2025 (of 23 November 2022)16, its ambition to scale up community sponsorship schemes and to promote complementary pathways linked to education and work. [...] Available here: 957858 – SAFE – AMIF-2019-AG-CALL The content of this paper represents the views of the authors only and are the sole responsibility of the authors.