# 2 .23 - Bordering in the EU – How the New Pact on Asylum and

# 2.23 MAY 2023 Bordering in the EU – How the New Pact on Asylum and Migration challenges human rights obligations Sanae Youbi Executive Summary During the last few decades, migration and asylum issues have garnered increased attention from politicians, the public, and the media throughout the European Union > In September 2020, the European (EU). [...] this policy brief argues that the Council and the European Parliament should amend the Following a peak in the number of asylum-seekers and proposed Regulation by designing an irregular migrants in 2015, alongside a growing perception approach inspired by a solidarity-driven of the danger posed by terrorism, the European Union has system, aligned with EU values. [...] in the EU, it is likely that the Commission might be able to In particular, and in light of the analysis and critique of the reach an agreement with the co-legislators before the end proposed Regulation, they should: of the current legislature, and adopt the proposed Screening regulation without making the amendments • Regulate the screening of third-country nationals needed, bolstering a trend th. [...] “Criminalisation of ‘Migrants’: The Side Effect of the Will to Control the Sanae Youbi is an academic Frontiers and the Sovereign Illusion.” In Irregular Migration and Human Rights: assistant at the European Theoretical, European and International Perspectives, edited by B. [...] Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Introducing a Screening of Third-Country Nationals at the External Borders.