EU Migration Pact Gets Its Own Press Conference (Yes, Really)
Mark your calendars for June 10, 2026, when eight MEPs will gather to explain the EU’s shiny new Migration and Asylum Pact to anyone brave enough to ask questions. Think of it as a two-part extravaganza—because one hour of migration policy just isn’t enough.
The morning kicks off at 9:15 CEST with Tomas Tobé from Sweden, Birgit Sippel from Germany, Jorge Buxadé Villalba from Spain, and Fabienne Keller from France (who couldn’t be bothered to show up in person and will Zoom in instead). They’ll be followed at 9:45 by another quartet: Germany’s Lena Düpont, Spain’s Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Italy’s Alessandro Ciriani, and Slovenia’s Matjaž Nemec.
The venue? The Anna Politkovskaya room at the European Parliament in Brussels—because nothing says “we care about migration” like naming rooms after murdered journalists. Can’t make it? No worries. The whole thing will be webstreamed, and journalists can lob questions via the Interactio platform from the comfort of their home offices.
For those keeping score, the Migration and Asylum Pact was adopted back in 2024 and covers everything from screening procedures to crisis management. Parliament even added some bonus regulations in February 2026 about safe third countries, because apparently the original pact wasn’t comprehensive enough.
A special Working Group has been monitoring implementation since January 2025, which means someone’s actually reading the fine print. Interpretation will be available in five languages—six if you stick around for Part 2 and speak Slovenian.
So grab your headphones, fire up that microphone, and prepare for sixty minutes of asylum procedure talk. Democracy in action, folks.