http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/71d2f0566c7a7fd1 https://verfassungsblog.de/silver-linings/ Silver Linings - Progressive Elements of the EU Migration Pact and Their Limits Deli, Janka Linos, Katerina eng 2026-07-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 EU EU Migration and Asylum Pact Migration Pact asylum solidarity EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In June 2026, after a two-year transition, the EU Migration and Asylum Pact became applicable across the Union. The European Council on Refugees and Exiles, representing 122 NGOs, called it “a dark day for Europe”, while Viktor Orbán called it “another nail in the coffin of the European Union”. But the Pact made intra-EU solidarity permanent, automatic, and binding. Furthermore, it codified entitlements for asylum seekers that national courts and the CJEU can enforce. Advocates can build on both of these two elements, even as they forcefully critique many other problematic aspects of the Pact.