EU Home Affairs Ministers Meeting

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - DECEMBER 12 : Finnish Minister of the Interior, Member of the right-wing populist Finns Party Mari Rantanen is talking to media prior the start of an EU Home Affairs Ministers meeting in the Europa, the EU Council headquarter on December 12, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. The presidency has put the adoption of the Council decision setting the date for the lifting of checks on persons at the internal land border with and between Bulgaria and Romania on the agenda of the meeting of ministers. Both countries already fully apply Schengen rules from 31 March 2024. The Commission and eu-LISA (an EU agency in charge of the management of IT systems in the area of security and justice) will brief ministers on the way forward on the start of operations of the Entry Exit System (EES). The Commission will give an update on the implementation of the pact on migration and asylum, a set of EU laws which was adopted in May. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)