The Coronavirus and Border Restrictions in the EU: Schengen and the right to asylum at risk?

International traffic restrictions and internal border controls have been one of the most visible policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic across the EU. This Webinar will address their impacts on Schengen rules and the right to seek asylum.

It will explore if the pandemic offers new evidence confirming the need to reform the Common European Asylum System by better ensuring ‘equal solidarity’ and human rights protections at EU external borders, and therefore maximizing the Union’s role in the implementation of the UN Global Compact on Refugees.

The Webinar falls within the scope of the ASILE project (Global Asylum Governance and European Union’s Role), coordinated by CEPS. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870787.

Keynote speaker: Commissioner Ylva Johansson

Discussants:
Tineke Strik, MEP
Michael O’Flaherty, Director, FRA
Marta Hirsch-Ziembinska, Head of Unit, European Ombudsman

Chair:
Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow andHead of Justice and Home Affairs Unit, CEPS