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FRA provided evidence-based input to support the development of the EU’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2026–2030. The contribution draws on the Agency’s survey data, research findings, and expert opinions.
FRA contributed to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report, following a request from the European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.
FRA shared input with the European Commission as it drafts its first EU affordable housing plan. FRA calls for a rights-based approach to housing.
FRA attended a European Commission meeting with EU Member States and relevant EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies to discuss the first draft of the European Annual Asylum and Migration Report.
FRA’s Director will present key findings of its annual Fundamental Rights Report 2025 on 14 July in Brussels to the European Parliament’s Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
FRA’s Head of Unit Equality, Roma and Social Rights, Siobhan MacInerney-Lankford, will exchange views with members European Parliament’s Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
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FRA will take part in the bi-annual Infra4NextGen stakeholder board meeting. Infra4NextGen is an EU-funded project which began on 1 March 2024 to bring together output from key social science research infrastructures to help inform the NextGenerationEU programme and European Union youth policies.
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At the invitation of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FRA’s Director will participate in the informal meeting of the Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI).
FRA has published its contribution to the European Commission as part of the consultation for the next EU budget.
FRA recently published its contribution to a European Commission consultation on EU funding in the future EU budget.
FRA’s guidance on setting up national independent mechanisms to monitor compliance with fundamental rights during screening and the asylum border procedure  is now also available in more languages. It is now also in Croatian, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
FRA took part at a meeting of the ETIAS Fundamental Rights Guidance Board which took place on 25 and 26 June in Warsaw. During the meeting, the Board discussed the methodology of the screening rules, the criteria for the ex-ante assessment of the risk indicators and the 2024 annual report.
FRA joined the Budapest Pride 30: International Human Rights Conference that ran from 24 to 26 June. It took part in a panel debate about the future of Europe.
FRA contributed to the training on 23-28 June in Bucharest for Schengen evaluators in the field of return and management of external borders. This is a regular event organised jointly by the European Commission and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex.
FRA gave an online presentation to a Center for the Study of Democracy roundtable on ‘Fundamental Rights, Artificial Intelligence and EU Law: Safeguards and Challenges’. The event was organised in the framework of the FAIR project, which aims to raise awareness about the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
On 20 June, FRA hosted a meeting of fundamental rights officers from the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Frontex, and Europol. They are an internal fundamental rights protection mechanism that EU agencies with operational activities which impact on people’s rights have set up as a safeguard to protect and promote the respect for fundamental rights in their activities.
FRA was a speaker during a panel on the EU’s proposed new return regulation and the concept of ‘return hubs’ at the 25th Berlin Symposium on Refugee Protection. It focused on fundamental rights issues and limitations.
FRA met with national statutory bodies from EU Member states on 20 and 27 June. These included National Human Rights Institutions, Equality Bodies and Ombuds institutions.
From 23 to 26 June, FRA attended meetings of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). It presented FRA’s priorities in the area of combating antisemitism, including in the area of Holocaust education and remembrance.