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Webinar - Belgium: Changes to Immigration Policy in Flanders and to Family Reunification Rules

02/01/2026

Fragomen will host a webinar on recent changes to Belgium’s immigration policies. The session will cover two main areas: first, new rules in the Flanders Region concerning economic migration, including labour migration pathways, contractual liability, and labour market testing; and second, nationwide modifications affecting family reunification, such as stricter financial criteria for visa applications. The webinar will also highlight practical implications for businesses employing foreign nationals.

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Flanders
illegal employment
labour market test
low-skilled workers
financial requirement
application for family reunification

EMN Germany Conference: Family Reunification – between Human Rights and Migration Management

11/09/2025

The event will bring together experts from Germany and across Europe to discuss recent developments in family reunification. Debates will address the tension between safeguarding fundamental rights and meeting the requirements of migration management. Participants will explore how these priorities can be reconciled in practice through national and European approaches.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification
fundamental right
migration management

EMN Poland high-level presidency conference: Countering irregular migration and addressing its root causes

04/04/2025

This high-level conference will provide panel discussions among EU Member States’ ministries, the European Commission, EU agencies, national stakeholders, international organisations, and third-country officials to exchange views on tackling irregular migration, border management, countering migrant smuggling, and addressing root causes of migration.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event

Deadline to respond to call for proposals to raise awareness about the risks of irregular migration

29/11/2024

The EU launched a call for proposals under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund to prevent irregular migration through awareness-raising and information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration in selected third countries and within Europe. The available call budget is EUR 10 000 000.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
awareness-raising
information campaign
migrant smuggling

EMN Netherlands Conference: Family Reunification in Europe and the Netherlands

14/03/2024

This conference organised by EMN Netherlands, in cooperation with EMN Belgium, will focus on family reunification of beneficiaries of international protection in EMN Member and Observer Countries. The influence of European case law in this field will also be examined in more detail. 

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification right
beneficiary of international protection

Book presentation: Family reunification under pressure

03/01/2024

Researcher and author Pascal Debruyne will present his book which contains stories of parents and minors who struggle through the family reunification procedure and stories of care providers who try their best to support these families. Panel discussions will also take place with experts in this field.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event

EMN Belgium Annual Policy Event 2019

06/11/2019

On 10 December 2019, EMN Belgium organises its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration and irregular migration and return will be discussed.

Theme:
Integration
Reception
International Protection
Economic migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Smuggling & Trafficking
Type:
Event
Keywords:
annual EMN policy event

EMN Annual Conference: Crossroads of migration - challenges and success factors in managing migration flows (Bulgaria, 2 days)

02/05/2018

On the 31st of May and 1st of June, the Bulgarian Contact Point of the EMN - in the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council - organizes the EMN Annual Conference. The conference will be dedicated to the following topic: challenges and success factors in managing migration flows.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Bulgarian Presidency
Bulgaria
EMN conference

ERA Conference 2018: European Immigration Law

13/03/2018

This conference aims to provide legal practitioners with an update on recent developments in the EU legal migration system and the mechanisms put in place to tackle labour and skills shortages and to reinforce the attractiveness of the EU for key workers

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
legal migration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Hasselt)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Leuven)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration - Training session on international family law (Gent)

03/01/2018

This training session (in Dutch) provided by the Flemish Agency for Integration and Civic Integration aims at providing participants with a basic understanding of international family law.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Family Law
family member
family reunification right
international private family law
Agency for Integration and Civic Integration

IE NCP Conference on ‘Migrant family reunification - policy and practice’ (Ireland)

30/10/2017

This full day conference will provide an opportunity to exchange information on family reunification schemes, in Ireland and abroad. Drawing on the findings of a recently published European Migration Network study the family reunification policy frameworks operational elsewhere in the EU will be discussed and compared.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
family reunification right

Deadline for responding to European Commission public consultation on legal migration by non-EU citizens

19/06/2017

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to collect evidence, experiences, data and opinions to support the evaluation of the existing EU legal framework for the legal entry and stay of nationals of non-EU countries to the EU Member States. The deadline is 18 September 2017. 

Theme:
Economic migration
Family Migration
Student Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
public consultation

NL EMN NCP Conference on family reunification in the Netherlands and Europe (The Hague)

06/04/2017

The Conference of the Dutch Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in the Hague on 18 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in the Netherlands and Europe.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Netherlands

EMN SE NCP Conference on family reunification in Sweden and Europe – state of play and lessons for the future (Stockholm)

20/03/2017

The Conference of the Swedish National Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Stockholm on 12 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in Sweden and in the EU.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Sweden

CEMO Event on the experience of exile through family reunification (Brussels)

Logo CEMO

20/07/2016

CEMO organises a study morning in Brussels on the topic of the experience of exile through family reunification: myths, procedures and uprooting.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
CEMO
exile

Colloquium "The refugees crisis, crisis of the European Union?" (Nice, 2 days)

Logo Université Nice Sophia Antipolis

23/05/2016

Does the refugees crisis also means a crisis of the EU ? This question will be addressed during the colloquium organized by the "Laboratoire de Droit international et Européen" and the "Centre d'excellence J. MONNET de l'UNS" in partnership with the "Centre d'excellence J. MONNET de l'UGA".

Theme:
Migration
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
EU-Turkey Agreement
refugees crisis

IES Policy Forum: "The Refugee Crisis and the EU-Turkey Deal: Which Role for the EU's Home Affairs Agencies?" (VUB)

Institute for European Studies logo

09/05/2016

The Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) organizes a Policy Forum on the role of the EU's home affairs agencies in the refugee crisis.

Theme:
Borders & Visa
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
EU-Turkey Agreement
European Asylum Support Office
Europol
Frontex
refugee crisis

EMN Annual Conference: Irregular Migration and Return: Challenges and Practices (2 days, Athens)

First page of EMN annual conference programme

08/05/2014

This year, the EMN Conference aims to support the policymaking process on a number of key areas of irregular migration policy, namely readmission, return, reintegration and cooperation with countries of transit and origin, as well as re-entry bans and (alternatives to) detention.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
External Dimension
Type:
Event
Keywords:
alternative to detention
detention
effective return
re-entry ban
reintegration

Call for projects: Making an informed decision about marriage migration (King Baudouin Foundation)

Screenshot of webpage dedicated to call for projects Marriage Migration

08/04/2014

The King Baudouin Foundation aims to reduce vulnerability amongst newcomers settling in Belgium through marriage. Associations working on marriage migration related challenges are invited to submit possible projects before 16 April 2014.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
News item
Keywords:
marriage migration

Foyer: seminar on new law on the fight against marriages and legal cohabitations of convenience

logo Foyer

28/02/2014

Foyer organises a half-day seminar on the recent law of 2 June 2013 on the fight against marriages and legal cohabitations of convenience.

Theme:
Family Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
legal cohabitation
marriage of convenience

A child is a child. How can the EU ensure the rights of undocumented migrant children and families? (PICUM)

Cover / Poster of event

06/11/2013

The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) together with Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), invite you to join a discussion on how the European Union can ensure the rights of undocumented migrant children and their families.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Vulnerable groups
Type:
Event
Keywords:
unaccompanied minors
undocumented migrants

PICUM's Annual International Workshop: the Housing Situation of Undocumented Migrants

PICUM logo

03/04/2013

PICUM's Annual International Workshop, that will take place on 28 June 2013 in the International Auditorium in Brussels, will explore the housing situation of undocumented migrants.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Type:
Event
Keywords:
housing
undocumented migrants

EP Seminar on Free movement of LGBT families in the EU: The Frankenstein EU Legislation

cover LGBT AP seminar

01/03/2013

The LGBT Intergroup is organising a seminar on the free movement of LGBT families, and the obstacles they face when moving around the EU.

Theme:
Migration
Family Migration

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