This snapshot shows the numbers of new people on the move arriving from the Balkan route encountered by IRC Italy and Diaconia Valdese in Trieste Central Station area during the reporting period. The data was gathered through individual and group interviews with people reached for the purpose of providing them with legal orientation and first aid. The monitoring activity is carried out during the entire daytime, and partially in the evening, of every day of the year, including weekends and holidays.

Three years in negotiation, the European Commission's Pact on Migration and Asylum is a complex package of reforms intended to mark “a fresh start” for EU asylum and migration policy, but how does it measure up?

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