New EU Agency for Asylum starts work with reinforced mandate

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement to transform the European Asylum Support Office into the EU Agency for Asylum and on 19 January 2022, the new mandate of the EU Agency for Asylum entered into force.
It is the first of the asylum projects approved to reform the Common European System, marking progress in modernizing asylum and reception practices in the EU.
The EU Agency for Asylum begins its work with a 2022 budget of EUR 172 million, an unprecedented eight operations supporting asylum and reception authorities in Member States with almost 2,000 personnel, and 500 staff mostly based in the agency’s headquarters in Malta, as well as in offices in Athens, Brussels, Rome, Nicosia, Madrid and Warsaw.

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