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The launch event of the European Dialogue on Skills and Migration aims to help the Commission understand what to do better to maximize the benefits of migration for the EU as a whole.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: labour shortage, migrant entrepreneurship, migrants' skills
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The Commission is proposing to establish a European Border and Coast Guard and also to introduce systematic checks against relevant databases for all people entering and exiting the Schengen area.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: European Border and Coast Guard, external border, Schengen area, security
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The European Commission has today presented a recommendation for a voluntary humanitarian admission scheme to create a system of solidarity and responsibility sharing with Turkey for refugees from Syria.
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Main theme: Asylum, External Dimension
Keywords: humanitarian admission, solidarity, Syrian refugees, temporary protection, Turkey
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Between 2014 and 2020, the EU will support Niger through the Emergency Trust Fund, inter alia to better manage migration flows, through improved border management and increased support to fight against trafficking and smuggling networks.
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Main theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: development cooperation, EU Emergency Trust Fund, Niger
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Today the European Commission decided to increase the level of cofinancing for the transport of the assistance via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, following activation of the mechanism by Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia.
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Main theme: Reception
Keywords: EU Civil Protection Mechanism, refugee crisis
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During a meeting on 25 October, leaders from countries facing challenges along the Western Balkans Migration Route agreed on a 17-point plan of action.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee crisis, migration crisis, Western Balkans
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Today, the European Commission adopted two decisions in relation to the EU's Emergency Trust Fund for Africa announced by President Juncker in his State of the Union speech last September
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Main theme: Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: Global Approach on Migration and Mobility
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The European Commission collects views and opinions, as well as ideas and knowledge, to elaborate a revised Smart Borders Package.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: smart border
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On 14 September 2015, an extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting was held in Brussels to discuss Europe's response to the current refugee crisis.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee, relocation
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Today, the European Commission put forward a package of proposals to help address the refugee crisis that EU Member States and neighbouring countries are facing, including by tackling the root causes making people seek refuge in Europe.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee crisis, relocation, safe country of origin
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The Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union has convened an extraordinary "Justice and Home Affairs" Council focused on Europe's response to the current migration crisis.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: Council of the European Union
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The European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, writes on the challenge of the migration issue.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection, Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: relocation, resettlement, solidarity
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Today, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the "Smart Borders Package", one of the priorities included in the European Agenda on Migration. All citizens (EU nationals and non-EU nationals) and organisations are invited to contribute.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: border management, European Commission
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Interior ministers in Brussels on Monday (20 July) fell short of a European Commission-proposed target to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers arriving in Greece and Italy over the next two years. However according to EU Commissioner Avramopoulos significant progress was made on different topics.
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Main theme: Reception, International Protection
Keywords: hotspots, relocation, safe country of origin
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Today Belgium lifted the restrictions on the free movement of workers from Croatia. Croatian citizens are now able to fully exercise their right to work in Belgium without a work permit.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: Croatia, free movement
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The European Agenda aims to give concrete answers following the recent tragedies in the Mediterranean and, more generally, to manage migration better in all aspects.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration, Mediterranean
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The European Commission asks Belgium to implement rules on a Single Permit and a clear set of rights for legal migrant workers.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: ingringement procedure, single permit directive
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A 10 point action plan of the immediate actions has been presented by Commissioner Avramopoulos and received the full backing of Foreign and Interior Ministers.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Keywords: Mediterranean region
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On 25 March 2015 the European Commission has approved 22 new multiannual national programmes under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF) for the period 2014-2020, worth together approximately €1.8 billion.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: asylum migration and integration fund, EU-funding, internal security fund
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On Sunday, 15 March the project on Smart Borders Pilot reached the next milestone - the execution phase – in Lisbon Airport, Portugal.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: Schengen, smart border
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The College of Commissioners held a first orientation debate setting out the four main areas where actions are envisaged in the European Agenda on Migration.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration
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The European Commission's Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs has decided to set up a temporary informal expert group on economic migration, and is therefore calling for applications to select members of this group.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Keywords: EU blue card, expert group on economic migration
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The European Migration Forum – the dialogue platform on migration, asylum and migrant integration – has met for the first time on 26 and 27 January 2015.
