What the New EU Asylum Pact Means for You Published June 13, 2026 · The Immigrants Editorial Team Something changed yesterday. Quietly, without fanfare, without anyone knocking on your door to explain it. On June 12, 2026, the European Union's new Migration and Asylum Pact came into full effect. It is the biggest overhaul of European asylum law in over a decade — ten pieces of binding legislation, rewriting the rules that govern what happens to you when you arrive at a Europe

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