EU leaders on 24 June agreed to establish a "safeguard mechanism" allowing the re-introduction of internal borders in exceptional circumstances

This week 25 refugees from Eritrea and Congo, who got into a deadlock in Libya, arrived in Belgium.

Between 11 - 29 July 2011, the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford holds its annual summer school in forced migration

EuropeAid Info Point organizes a lunch-time conference on ‘Preventing and prosecuting trafficking for labour exploitation’ on Thursday, 7 July 2011, at 12.30 p.m. at the External Cooperation Info Point, rue de la Loi 43, Ground floor.

Every month, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons publishes a document containing the statistics on the asylum applications and the decisions taken.

The International Training Centre of ILO (ITC-ILO) organizes its acadamy in close collaboration with other partners like ILO Migrant, the Global Migration Group and the European University in Florence. The academy takes place in Turin, Italy, 4-15 July 2011

The Belgian Immigration Office started the SEFOR Project, which aims at ensuring the follow-up of the migrants having received an order to leave the territory, if they are effectively returning to their country of origin, voluntarily or not (SEFOR meaning "Sensibilisation, Follow-up, Return)

The Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has developed an inventory of information sources and institutions dealing with migration issues. Called migratory, this inventory identifies over 1800 sources located in the UNECE region.

Debate organised by the Fondation Robert Schuman whith Mr. Jacques Barrot (former Vice-President of the EU Commission) and Mr. Carlos Coehlo (EU MEP, EPP), moderated by Mr. Jean-Dominique Giuliani

The European Council has launched its virtual Resource Centre on Free Movement & Migration

The conference of the King Baudouin Foundation focus on migrants from China, Congo, Morocco and Turkey. The conference will discuss the question if transnational activities are factors of integration or rather segregation.

The new EASO Office began some of its activities in November 2010, and is since 19 June 2011 fully operational

On June 22, 2011, the Justice Commission found no agreement on the draft bill of several Flemish political parties concerning the tightening of the acquisition of citizenship in Belgium

The World Refugee Day, an initiative of the United Nations, is celebrated since 2001. In 2011 the World Refugee Day is marked by the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention

The judicial service of the Brussels based Integration Centre 'Foyer' offers a thematic workshop for practitioners
When: 17/06/2011, 13-16.30h
Where: Regional Integration Centre 'Foyer' Werkhuizenstraat 25, 1080 Brussels
Free of cost

The Council Directive 2003/109/EC has been amended by the Directive 2011/51/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 to extend its scope to beneficiaries of international protection

EMN presents its synthesis report of the EMN study ‘Satisfying Labour Demand through Migration ’. Source of this publication are the different national studies, carried out in 2010 by the National Contact Points (NCP's) of the EMN.