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The Commission welcomes the Council’s decision to remove internal air and sea border controls between Bulgaria and Romania and the countries of the Schengen area, as of 31 March 2024.

The 8th edition of the European Migration Forum, held in Brussels on 4 and 5 December 2023, brought together more than 250 participants from civil society and institutions working in the field of migration, asylum and integration.

Migration occupies central stage in the public debate. The EU funded E-MINDFUL project aims to help investigate the key factors that shape public perceptions about migration and migrants. Its goal is to provide guidance on how to build effective communication strategies that can reduce polarisation.

After three years of negotiations, the European Parliament and Council have reached a political agreement on the Pact on Migration and Asylum. Today’s agreement fills an important gap and is a major breakthrough towards a common system for managing migration in the EU.

The European Commission has decided last week to make available over €65 million from the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) to support Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland, and Romania in hosting people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

On 18 December 2023, the Commission published a call for proposals under the Internal Security Fund (ISF) to co-fund projects aiming to fight organised criminal networks.

The EC and the EU High Representative celebrate International Migrants Day by honouring the ways migrants contribute to our societies. 184 million people live outside their country of origin worldwide, and about 24 million live, work and study in the EU, contributing to its prosperity and diversity.

Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, are attending the ongoing Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, between 13 and 15 December.

Within 2023, the Commission delivered a far-reaching legislative anti-corruption set of measures while also establishing an EU Network against Corruption. These initiatives follow up on President von der Leyen’s pledge to fight corruption in the EU and worldwide, as stated by Commissioner Johansson.