Publication date: 20 April 2018

The updated country report on Belgium contains information on recent developments in case law and policy related to asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and integration of beneficiaries of international protection.
Main theme: Asylum
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum law

Publication date: 22 February 2017

The updated country report on Belgium contains information on recent developments in case law and policy related to asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and integration of beneficiaries of international protection.
Main theme: Asylum
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: asylum decisions, asylum law, asylum policy, asylum procedure

Publication date: 03 July 2013

This report provides statistics, information on the legal framework, the asylum procedure and reception conditions for asylum seekers in Belgium.

Publication date: 22 February 2012

In this new publication, M. Maes, M.-C. Foblets and Ph. De Bruycker provide an analysis of the dynamic relationship of the external dimensions of EU asylum and migration policies.
Main theme: External Dimension
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: asylum law, EU Migration Policy

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This Summer School, which has already trained more than 2000 persons, offer participants a global understanding of the European immigration and asylum policies from a legal perspective, including the latest developments in 2023.
Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: asylum law, migration law

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The online seminar will provide legal practitioners with an update on the case law developed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with relevance for asylum law. It will focus primarily on developments in 2022.
Main theme: Asylum
Keywords: asylum law

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Today, March 12, 2018 the Law of 21 November 2017 (adopted in the Parliament on Nov. 9) modifying the Immigration Act was published in the Belgian Official Gazette and will come into force on March 22, 2018.   
Main theme: International Protection
Keywords: asylum law

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Each year, the Odysseus Network organizes a summer school in EU immigration and asylum law and policy. The courses tackle the most recent legislative, jurisprudential and political developments in the field at EU level.

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The conference of the Academy of European Law (ERA) will focus on managing the migration and refugee crisis, as well as on return.

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The Odysseus Academic Network launches a Young Researcher Prize and a Best Publication Prize for publications on EU Immigration or Asylum Law.

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The 16th edition of the Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy will take place from 4 to 15 July 2016 in Brussels.

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The Council approved today amendments to the directive on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection and the content of the protection granted, to be transposed into national law within 2 years.

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The Catholic University of Louvain will organize a restricted seminar about the first findings of a research project concerning the implementation into the Belgian law of the Dublin Regulation and the Qualification Directive