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Sinan Veziroğlu and Mustafa Atatorun assess the New Pact on Migration and Asylum through asylum seeker and refugee rights and Member State obligations, distinguishing the periods before and after the Pact in EU refugee law. They credit its humanitarian admission approach with addressing harms arising during search and rescue operations, but identify security-related regressions: a lower fingerprinting age, longer detention including for disadvantaged groups, a longer maximum application assessment period, restrictions on unauthorised movement within the EU and an emergency mechanism open to abuse.
The authors recognise advances in the new solidarity model and fair sharing of responsibilities, but argue that national authorities' full competence over international protection applications, the absence of sanctions for Member States' failure to respect asylum seeker rights and the lack of strong oversight make admission more difficult. They also note the abolition of the practice of allocating Member State responsibility through diplomas issued by educational institutions. They consider the reform appropriate in responding to needs and the new situation, while finding its content insufficient and in need of improvement.
The aspects in which the New Pact on Migration and Asylum advances or regresses the rights of asylum seekers and refugees and Member State obligations in EU refugee law.
The authors distinguish solidarity reforms from shortcomings in sanctions and oversight: in their assessment, the latter make the admission of asylum seekers more difficult.
Public and Private International Law Bulletin · 2026
DOI 10.26650/ppil.2026.46.2.1698514