The new EU migration and asylum pact seeks to give governments a greater sense of control over their borders while bolstering the EU's role in migration management - treating it as a European issue, not just a national one. "...Europeans will decide who comes to the EU and who can stay, not the smugglers," European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said. The pact stipulates that rapid assessments of whether a person is eligible for asylum will take place at borders