The phenomenon of mass migrations represents an international dilemma encompassing increasingly complex questions for the EU transnational and global community. It calls for progressive solutions and specific legal frameworks on adequate forms of assistance to the benefit of States most severely affected by massive refugees‘ and migrants‘ movements, while also paying respect for human dignity of the most vulnerable. The panel contributes to the global discussion on the issue by underpinning the practical challenges in recent years with theoretical background, in particular through the re-imagination of long standing principles (human rights, solidarity and sovereignty).