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DRAFT OPINION (COM(2025)0540 – C100177/2025 – 2025/0540(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Establishing the Union support for asylum, migration and integration for the period from 2028 to 2034

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Committee on Development · Rapporteur: Ondřej Kolář

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The Committee on Development's draft opinion responds to the Commission's proposal for Union support for asylum, migration and integration for 2028 to 2034, focusing on the external dimension. It argues that migration is used as a political weapon and hybrid threat by third countries, and that EU aid must come with conditions tied to migration control and readmission. It tables 20 amendments to the proposed regulation, adding references to halting uncontrolled migration, return and readmission, and suspending payments to uncooperative partner countries. The amendments also open the Union support to third-country participation under conditions, and require a whole-of-route approach respecting international law.

Committee position. The Committee on Development proposes 20 amendments to the Commission's proposal, focusing on the external dimension, conditionality of aid, return and readmission, and third-country participation.

Key points

  1. The draft opinion says migration is a common European problem needing a shared, rules-based response, with focus on the external dimension of Union support.
  2. It states that third countries such as Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Libya use migration flows as a political weapon and hybrid threat against the EU.
  3. It calls for concrete conditions on EU financial and technical assistance to third countries, linked to preventing irregular migration, combating smuggling and facilitating return management.
  4. Amendment 1 adds to the regulation's purpose fair and efficient procedures, halting uncontrolled migration, and effective return and readmission of third-country nationals.
  5. Amendment 2 adds that Union support should build on results under development cooperation instruments such as the European Development Fund and the Global Europe instrument.
  6. Amendment 3 adds that State actors artificially create irregular migration and that Union support should include new and innovative solutions for migration management.
  7. Amendment 5 requires coherence between internal and external policies including development assistance, and introduces conditions for external assistance and support.
  8. Amendment 6 allows full or partial participation of third countries in Union support, with suspension if an agreement is jeopardised, subject to a fair balance of contribution and benefits.
  9. Amendment 9 adds need-based reintegration and countering instrumentalisation and weaponisation of irregular migration to the objective on return and readmission.
  10. Amendment 11 requires the Commission to suspend payments or development cooperation with a partner country that fails to readmit its nationals or uses migration as a hybrid threat.
  11. Amendment 13 requires a coherent whole-of-route strategy with attention to countries of origin, transit and departure, in full compliance with international law including human rights and refugee law.
  12. Amendment 14 allows Union support for actions in and in relation to third countries that contribute to the regulation's objectives and complement the Global Europe Fund.

Who is affected

  • Third countries: may participate in Union support under conditions, or face suspended payments for non-cooperation on readmission or hybrid threats.
  • Member states: must ensure allocation of resources between objectives is proportionate to identified challenges and needs.
  • Partner countries of origin, transit and departure: subject to a whole-of-route strategy and comprehensive partnerships.
  • EU delegations: may receive support for resources such as liaison officers in duly justified cases.

Figures and deadlines

  • 1 January 2028 to 31 December 2034: the period of Union support under the regulation.
  • 2008-2013: period of the European Refugee Fund and the European Return Fund.
  • 2007-2013: period of the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals.
  • 2014-2020 and 2021-2027: periods of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.