CURRENT MEASURES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC AGAINST IRREGULAR MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CZECH PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

The Czech Republic presides over the Council of the European union from the beginning of July to the end of December. This important position means that the presiding country leads all meetings at all levels of the Council. The topics that the Czech Republic, as the presiding state, will have to deal with are undoubtedly challenging. In addition to high energy prices and a high rate of inflation, the European union and the countries of Central Europe in particular are troubled by the war conflict in ukraine. This caused a mass refugee wave of migrants from ukraine, but in the meantime, in addition to the humanitarian issue, the issue of an increased level of irregular migration and smuggling also opened up. It is precisely this topic that we address in the contribution in the context of the tasks of the Czech Republic as the presiding country. The aim of the contribution is the identification and evaluation of current measures against irregular migration in the Czech Republic and the European union. In the contribution, we mainly use qualitative scientific methods of deduction, induction, comparison, analysis and synthesis.