William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Camille Le Coz. Director of the Migration Policy Institute of Europe. The implementation of the EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact marks the beginning of a critical experiment in collective migration governance. After more than a decade of negotiations, the pact seeks to reconcile competing imperatives: strengthening border management, accelerating asylum procedures, ensuring greater coordination among member states, and rebuilding trust within a fragmented European system.