As part of her volunteering with Migreurop and EuroMed Rights in Brussels (November 2025–May 2026), Jeanne Olivet closely followed the negotiations surrounding the European Union’s migration reforms. Through this timeline, she highlights the accelerating pace and increasing brutality of EU migration policies. She also provides an analysis of the dynamics within the European institutions that are driving the adoption of ever more repressive migration measures.
Last update : 06/25/2026. To (…)

As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies. Here are the EU updates for the period from March to May 2026.
Toward the imminent adoption of the “return” regulation
On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament confirmed in plenary session the negotiating mandate on the reform of the 2008 “Return” Directive (…)

As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies.
Adoption of the concept of "safe third countries" and the European list of "safe countries of origin": facilitation of deportations and infringement of the right to asylum
On 10 February 2026, the European Parliament approved a legislative text extendingthe (…)

As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies.
October-December 2025 period: On December 10, 2025, the European Commission will host the 2025 International Conference of the Global Alliance to Combat "Migrant Smuggling" in Brussels, reports Politico. More than 80 delegations from European agencies, partner (…)

Zoé Dutot, was hosted by the association ADITUS, in Malta, from October 2020 to March 2021 as part of session 23 of the Echanges & Partenariats programme on behalf of Migreurop, with the aim of analysing the detention of people in exile in the archipelago, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the evolution of national migration policy, the challenges of Malta’s geographical position, the management of its SAR zone and its relations with the European Union and its European neighbours (…)