THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION REPORT. Europe in a period of transition

RECOMMENDATIONS 123 New European Pact onMigration and Asylum − The adoption of a mechanism of shared responsibility must be promoted, establishing obligatory relocation quotas among the Member States to prevent an “a la carte” solidarity that is not acceptable for tackling the migration phenomenon. − Measures must be adopted so that the New Euro- pean Pact on Migration and Asylum fully guarantees the observance of the duties to protect human rights in relation to the new pre-entry screening procedure and the accelerated procedure at the border. − Measures must be adopted to guarantee individual analysis, the principle of non-refoulement, and the early detection of people in a situation of particular vulnerability. − The shortcomings of the Dublin system must be rem- edied with the proposal of a new Regulation on the management of asylum and migration, particularly re- garding the excessive responsibility placed on the first country of entry for the study of asylum applications. − The Member States should make a greater commit- ment in terms of resettlement, the only legal and safe route available; raise the agreed quotas; increase the number of people permanently resettled, and extend the number of eligible nationalities. − The policies of externalising borders and the sign- ing of agreements with third countries that do not respect human rights or guarantee adequate protec- tion for migrants and refugees must stop. European policies on border management must respect the principal of leaving no one behind and the Sustain- able Development Goals (SDG). − Consistency between European asylum and migra- tion policy, the 2030 Agenda and global pacts on migration and refuge must be guaranteed, ensuring a human rights, gender, and intercultural approach in their implementation. The Future Architecture of European Security − The Member States of the EU must sign a political agreement for the launch of a European Union of Defence whose ultimate goal has to be attaining EU autonomy on security and defence matters, including the collective defence of its members, without prej- udice to the commitments undertaken in alliances already signed or that may be signed in the future, even if one or more Member States do not sign it. Then, it will be necessary to draw up as precise a road map as possible and begin to implement it as soon as possible, since the full process will take many years. − Relations with the United States on security and de- fence matters must be revised, so that one of the parties is the EU –with a single voice– and always maintaining the principle of sovereignty of all the European states. − Dialogue with Russia must be restored as soon as possible to resolve the existing disputes, without prejudice to maintaining the sanctions necessary in the meantime.