Lattanzio KIBS supports the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in the systematic collection of data on fundamental rights, border violence, non-refoulement, and unaccompanied minors across the 27 EU Member States

The challenge: fundamental rights under pressure at Europe’s borders

The new European Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted in 2024, introduces faster border procedures for handling asylum applications and returns. While this approach responds to pressing political demands, it also creates tangible risks for the protection of fundamental rights, particularly for the most vulnerable groups: victims of violence or torture, unaccompanied minors, and people in irregular transit.

The right to life, the prohibition of torture, and the principle of non-refoulement - which prohibits countries from returning asylum seekers to territories where they would face a real risk of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, or other protected grounds - are at the core of the monitoring activities requested by FRA under the FRANET Framework Contract - Data Collection and Research Services on Fundamental Rights Issues.

The 48-month assignment builds on Lattanzio KIBS’s previous work for FRA on issues such as discrimination, racism, bullying, and disinformation.

From field-based evidence to impact on European policymaking

The Lattanzio KIBS team is responsible for delivering updated, quarterly, and systematic data on legislation, policy measures, challenges, and promising practices related to the fundamental rights of migrants and asylum seekers entering the EU through irregular routes.

The reports produced will inform the quarterly meetings of the Blueprint Network on migration forecasting, the European Annual Report on Asylum and Migration (Art. 9.7, Regulation (EU) 2024/1351), as well as the monitoring and training activities carried out by Frontex and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), two specialised EU agencies that work closely together on the management of external borders and migration flows.

The findings may also contribute to FRA’s periodic publications on key fundamental rights challenges across Member States.

Priority topics include physical violence at borders and related investigations, violations of the principle of non-refoulement, reception capacity and conditions, access to asylum procedures, the situation of children - including unaccompanied minors - as well as developments concerning human trafficking and the criminalisation of humanitarian actors.

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