News Blog - Ylva Johansson

This week’s blog is about the ongoing, strong EU response to refugees arriving from Ukraine.

Following on President Putin’s horrific, unlawful invasion of Ukraine, we have seen the EU act stronger, more united and indeed more humane, than maybe ever before. Thursday March 3 the ministers of Interior unanimously took the decision to activate the Temporary Protection Directive.

My visit to Senegal and Niger last week was an investment.

I have just concluded two intensive days of discussions in Silicon Valley. The topic, the fight against child sexual abuse (CSA) online.

Today marks day one of the new mandate for the European Union Agency for Asylum EUAA

Migration is normal. It has always been here. It always will be here.

Today, I am asking you for your views on fighting trafficking in human beings. To help update the Anti-Trafficking Directive, and to shape EU-anti trafficking policy for the next ten years.

Last week I could announce some very good news: 15 EU Member States agreed to help 60,000 refugees

On 24 November 2021, in the English Channel near Dunkirk, at least 27 migrants, including 5 women and a little girl, drowned, when their flimsy boat capsized. This marked the most fatalities since monitoring began.

Last Sunday I wrote in this blog that I hoped we’d soon see improvement in the situation at the EU-Belarus border.

This has been the week when the disgraceful exploitation of migrants by the Lukashenko regime became a world concern.

The conclusions of the European Council on migration (22 October) drew a stark contrast between the standards and the process of the European Union and the bankruptcy of the Lukashenko autocracy.

Together Against Trafficking in Human Beings

This blog is a weekly update of the progress we are making on the Europeanisation of migration and asylum policy.

As part of the follow up to the JHA Council today, I will convene a High Level Forum to discuss concrete priorities with Member States and provide sustainable solutions to those Afghans who are most vulnerable, particularly women and children, but also human rights activists, journalists, lawyers.

On October 7, myself and EU High Representative Josep Borrell will convene a High-level Resettlement Forum dedicated to the situation in Afghanistan. This commitment was announced during the EU Member States extraordinary meeting of Interior Ministers on 31 August.

At the conclusion to this edition, I’ll recap the EU reactions to the aggressive actions by the Lukashenko regime but the summary is a relatively positive one: The European Union is acting uniformly, quickly and effectively.

An Integrated Political Crisis Response of EU Home Affairs Ministers on the situation at the EU external borders with Belarus – in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland – will take place on Wednesday 18 August. The High Representative and Vice-President Josep Borrell will join us for that important meeting.

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