The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report – annual report 2025

Tabled by Petra Steger, Marieke Ehlers, Jorge Buxadé Villalba

112. Removed: Reiterates the obligation of Member States to respect EU and international law in the field of Added: Welcomes the fact that some Member States have adopted laws, policies and practices aimed at reducing illegal migratory flows to EU territory and restoring effective control of external borders, while ensuring compliance with applicable legal obligations; stresses that safeguarding the integrity of external borders is a prerequisite for maintaining the rule of law within the Union; underlines the fact that Member States must retain the ability to take necessary and proportionate measures to prevent illegal entry and to ensure the effective functioning of their migration and asylum Removed: on land and at sea; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that migration and asylum policies, including the Pact on Migration and Asylum, are implemented in full compliance with the Charter, the principle of non-refoulment and the principle of responsibility-sharing to ensure that people’s rights to asylum and international protection are upheld; reiterates that practices such as stopping asylum seekers and forcibly returning them to the country they entered from without carrying out an individual assessment, arbitrary detention and obstruction of humanitarian aid are contrary to EU and international law; Added: systems;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.226v01-00