Focus on migration as part of the European Council conclusions

Migration dominated the European Council agenda from the outbreak of the migration crisis in 2015 until late 2018. Between January 2015 and October 2018, EU-28 Heads of State or Government discussed migration at 21 of their 25 formal and informal meetings. Additionally, EU leaders discussed migration with leaders of third countries and strategic partners at the High-level Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean – Western Balkans Route on 8 October 2015, the Valletta Summit on 11-12 November 2015 and the EU-Turkey Summit on 29 November 2015.
With the reduction of migrant arrivals and subsequent decrease in importance of migration on the EU agenda, the European Council has also reduced the attention it pays to migration, which for the first time since 2015 was not addressed at any European Council meeting in 2019.