The European Parliament adopted a significantly updated Eurodac regulation on 10 April 2024, expanding the biometric data collected from asylum seekers and adding new tools to identify security threats.
EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers convened to address mounting security challenges from Middle East tensions, advance asylum pact negotiations, and confirm new operational dates for Europe's digital border systems ETIAS and EES.
At their October 2025 meeting, EU home affairs ministers took stock of the Schengen area just days after the Entry/Exit System entered into force. The discussion linked the live rollout of EES with the next wave of border technology, including ETIAS and the updated Eurodac system.
The December 2025 Justice and Home Affairs Council combined migration policy decisions with another major step in the EU’s border technology agenda. Ministers endorsed a roadmap for future interoperability work while placing EES, ETIAS and Eurodac inside a longer-term plan for Schengen security.
EU home affairs ministers linked border technology, migration management, Schengen returns and international security cooperation in a single agenda.
The EU is building a more connected digital architecture for borders, migration and law enforcement, with interoperability at the center of the plan.