FRINGE EVENT – Shared Responsibility, Shared Future: For a Progressive European Asylum and Migration Policy

Friday, 17 October
17:50 – 19:00, Carme Chacón stage

The panel will discuss the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Speakers will share their views on the implementation process and possible ways to ensure a progressive and effective implementation of the Pact.
Moving away from crisis management into a long-term and sustainable approach, preserving the right of asylum, protecting people, implementing a binding solidarity and responsibility sharing mechanism, effectively managing our borders, cooperating with countries of origin and transit and creating effective, safe and legal pathways.

Speakers:

• Chair – Ana Catarina Mendes, Chair of the PES Migration and Integration Network, MEP, PS, Portugal
• Elma Saiz Delgado, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, PSOE, Spain
• Elio Di Rupo, Minister of State, MEP, PS, Belgium
• Philippe De Bruycker, Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Sjoerd Warmerdam, Director Dutch Council for Refugees, The Netherlands