A day after the EU's new asylum and migration pact formally came into force, the EU Commission is now launching its plan for how it will be implemented.
At the latest within two years, member states will need to have adapted to the new common rules on, among other things, reception conditions and asylum procedures that the EU Parliament and member states nailed down as recently as May.
We are eager to implement this. We only have two years, notes Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson at a press conference in Brussels.
The plan will be presented to the EU countries' interior and justice ministers on Thursday, whereupon all EU countries will have to have drawn up their own implementation plans by December at the latest.
