Overview
- Italy signaled willingness to grant visa-free entry to Pakistani diplomatic passport holders at Pakistan’s request.
- Italy, Spain and Greece endorsed Pakistan’s proposal for regulated legal pathways, with the EU set to bolster Pakistan’s capacity-building; ministers cited a 47% decline in illegal departures from Pakistan.
- Pakistan and Greece agreed to finalise a long-pending Migration Cooperation Agreement, increase work visas and create a Joint Working Group to operationalise cooperation.
- The participating ministers adopted a coordinated framework that includes intelligence sharing, a rapid response mechanism and repatriation of serious offenders, with the next meeting planned in Pakistan later this year.
- In follow-up talks in Warsaw, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland agreed to appoint focal persons and develop a shared roadmap to curb irregular migration while supporting legal channels.