# High Representative backs harder Mediterranean disembarkation and returns language

Date: 2020

Through 2020–2024 [Borrell](/people/josep-borrell)’s public CFSP line treated Mediterranean arrivals as a foreign-policy and hybrid-pressure file as well as an asylum file. Language is not a regulation. It is a completed political act beside the later pact.

## People

- Josep Borrell: https://factrail.ai/people/josep-borrell

## Drivers

- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness

## Sources

- https://www.unhcr.org/news/mediterranean
- https://www.eeas.europa.eu/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-borrell-med-migration