European Council 20-21 October 2016: Partnership Frameworks with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration

Migration Compacts

• Presented by Commission and endorsed by European Council in June 2016
• Stemming the flow of irregular migrants
• Helping third countries to tackle root causes of irregular migration
• Improve cooperation on return and readmission

Initial progress

• In the five priority countries several high-level missions have taken place to re-set migration relations on a new basis
• We can already see the first concrete results