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đ Irregular migration is difficult to define and measure. Existing EU data on border crossings, unauthorised stays, and returns are often incomplete and inconsistent, offering only a partial and sometimes misleading picture. Yet these figures shape policymaking and fuel a narrative of a long-standing migration crisis in the EU. They also trigger renewed efforts to reinforce EU measures seeking to deter, criminalise, and return irregular migrants. While new data sources may fill some gaps, a fuller understanding requires additional indicators focused on rights, effectiveness, and policy coherence.
đ Discover more about EU data sources on irregular migration and return, and the complementary approaches needed to address key gaps, in our briefing: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2025)767210
đ Irregular migration is difficult to define and measure. Existing EU data on border crossings, unauthorised stays, and returns are often incomplete and inconsistent, offering only a partial and sometimes misleading picture. Yet these figures shape policymaking and fuel a narrative of a long-standing migration crisis in the EU. They also trigger renewed efforts to reinforce EU measures seeking to deter, criminalise, and return irregular migrants. While new data sources may fill some gaps, a fuller understanding requires additional indicators focused on rights, effectiveness, and policy coherence.
đ Discover more about EU data sources on irregular migration and return, and the complementary approaches needed to address key gaps, in our briefing: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2025)767210
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Diets tailored to our individual characteristics could bring about health benefits but require data on our most personal features, such as our DNA. The promises are many, but so are open questions about the interactions between genes, nutrients, environment and health, and the role of socioeconomic factors behind our food choices. Governance of precision nutrition advice, services and products will include various legislation and policies because of its position between lifestyle and health, or food and medicine.
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![Deepening the single market in the light of the Letta and Draghi reports [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rmwyu35WnN0/mqdefault.jpg "Deepening the single market in the light of the Letta and Draghi reports [Policy podcast]
Recent shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have revealed not only the single markets vulnerability in crises, but also the extent to which the EUs competitiveness relies on a well-functioning single market, ensuring unhindered access to the goods, services, and strategic inputs EU supply chains need. Although the single market has generally been a success, recent analyses, including those put forward by Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi in 2024, clearly demonstrate that it remains highly fragmented, limiting EU companies ability to scale up and compete internationally, and preventing EU citizens from reaping the full benefits.
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/762469/EPRS_BRI(2024)762469_EN.pdf
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![The future of EU cohesion policy: The emerging debate [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RnVKewSqd6g/mqdefault.jpg "The future of EU cohesion policy: The emerging debate [Policy Podcast]
Early work is underway on the post-2027 reform of EU cohesion policy. This creates a unique opportunity for regional and local stakeholders to influence national positions and those of the European institutions at an early stage, well before the actual start of the legislative process. This reflection process is not only technical, but is also highly political because it touches on many of the challenges the EU is facing. Key issues include the degree to which other EU policies support cohesion objectives.
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![The European Parliaments new Rules of Procedure: Parliament 2024 reforms [Policy podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TiUo7P9h7Ys/mqdefault.jpg "The European Parliaments new Rules of Procedure: Parliament 2024 reforms [Policy podcast]
The European Parliaments new Rules of Procedure entered into force on 16 July 2024 â the first day of Parliaments 10th term. The Parliament 2024 reforms sought primarily to streamline legislative procedures, enhance budgetary control and improve scrutiny of the Commission. The reforms also affect plenary, with new speaking-time attribution rules and the creation of a new plenary debate format.
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)762396
đ§Listen to our podcasts reporting on the latest EU policy developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications:
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