EUAA provides targeted operational support to ten Member States where protection systems are under pressure

The EUAA is providing operational support to 10 Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain. The EUAA’s support covers different facets of asylum, reception, relocation and temporary protection, and comes as the EU and its Member States prepare to implement the Pact on Migration and Asylum. The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), which has operations in 10 Member States, has recently signed amended or new Operational Plans with eight of these countries. The new plans build on a years-long work to streamline and standardise the support the Agency provides to Member States, while also ensuring national authorities benefit from effective EU support. With the signatures of these plans, the EUAA continues to provide targeted support to Member States where protection systems are under pressure, either as the result of being at the forefront of migration flows, or because they need to cope with applications stemming from secondary movements. Together with Spain and Germany, where the operational support was agreed on in 2023 and 2024, respectively; the EUAA is now present on the ground in 10 Member States and will deploy around 1 500 personnel throughout 2025. Separately, the Agency has closed its operations in Austria, Lithuania and Slovenia last year. Support to Asylum The EUAA is expanding its operational support in Belgium, with new support provided to the national asylum system. The Agency plan includes...