(Brussels) Exploring “what migration and asylum policies should cover to protect people’s fundamental rights and help the less developed countries achieve a full development” is the aim of the debate on “migration and full human development”, that the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences (Comece) will organise in Brussels on March 23^rd, fifty years after the publication of Pope Paul VI’s social encyclical Populorum progressio, that put “development at the centre of social justice” and addressed migration as “dutiful hospitality”, as well as a duty to “enable people to stay in their own countries in a dignified manner”. A tight schedule of speeches, including that of Jesuit father Grégoire Catta (Centre Sèvres, Paris) about the meaning of the Populorum progressio in today’s world, Annabelle Roig Granjon (Unhcr) about the response to forced migration, and José Luis Bazan (Comece) about the right not to migrate as part of the right to development. The conference will be opened by father Olivier Poquillon, general secretary of Comece, and closed by José Ignazio Garcia (Jesuit Refugee Service). A few days later, from 29^th to 31^st March, the thirty bishops who are members of Comece will meet in Brussels for their spring plenary session that will mark the start of reflections in the run-up to the congress “Rethinking Europe: Christian contribution to the future of the EU”, due to take place in Rome on 27-29 October 2017.