On 11-12 November, the Valletta summit on migration brought together European and African Heads of State and Government in an effort to strengthen cooperation and address the current challenges but also the opportunities of migration.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: EU Emergency Trust Fund, Valletta Summit
On the occasion of an informal meeting following the Valletta Summit, heads of state or government focus on the migration crisis, the future of Schengen and cooperation with Turkey.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: external border, hotspot, migration crisis, relocation, Schengen
Home Affairs Ministers focused in particular on speeding up the relocation process, strengthening the EU's external borders, fighting human trafficking and smuggling, and return and readmission.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: migration crisis, relocation, hotspot, Integrated Political Crisis Response, European Migration Liaison Officers
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.
Main Theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: development cooperation, EU Emergency Trust Fund, Niger
On 3rd of November 2015, the General Policy Note on Asylum and Migration of the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration was published. It defines the main orientations and actions to be taken in the field of asylum and migration in 2016.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: policy note, State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee crisis, migration crisis, Western Balkans
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
Main Theme: Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: Global Approach on Migration and Mobility
The Council adopted a series of conclusions on the future of the return policy and approved more money to tackle the refugee crisis. The EMN will be used to monitor whether disparities among Member States' programmes could lead to return shopping.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: migration crisis, return policy
A first group of 19 asylum seekers was relocated from Italy to Sweden today under an EU relocation scheme.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: relocation
On the 7th October 2015, the EMN Annual Conference took place in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg). It was dedicated to the 30 years of the Schengen Agreement, as well as to the current challenges to the system regarding border management and irregular migration.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: border management, EMN Annual Conference, refugee crisis, Schengen
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee, relocation
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: refugee crisis, relocation, safe country of origin
Today, the Federal Migration Centre presented its new name (Myria) and identity as well as its report "Migration in figures and rights", which provides an annual overview of the demographics and of the situation of foreigners in terms of fundamental rights.
Main Theme: Migration, Asylum
Keywords: Myria, federal migration centre
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.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: Council of the European Union
The Council of Ministers has approved a series of measures to guarantee the humane reception of asylum seekers, ensure the rapid transfer of asylum files and reinforce the return of failed asylum seekers.
Main Theme: Migration, Asylum
Keywords: reception law
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration, Mediterranean
The Belgian EMN National Contact Point (NCP) organized an information session targeted at partners from the institutions being part of it, with a view to informing them about its activities and cooperation opportunities.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: CGRS, Fedasil, federal migration centre, Immigration Office
Today, 1 April, the Belgian EMN NCP met the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration to outline EMN activities and to explore how the EMN can be of greater use to policy makers, especially in the framework of EU benchmarking.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: asylum migration and integration fund, EU-funding, internal security fund
During the meeting of the Home Affairs Council, Ministers discussed migratory pressures, and in particular the situation in the central Mediterranean, as well as increasing trends in asylum applications from Western Balkans countries and in particular Kosovo.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration, Mediterranean, migratory pressure, Western Balkans
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: European Agenda on Migration
The Royal Decree of 16 February 2015 determining amounts and practical arrangements for collecting fees for the handling of certain applications for a residence permit has been published today, 20 February 2015.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: handling fee, application for a residence permit
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.
Main Theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: European Migration Forum, Mediterranean region
As from today, foreigners have to pay a fee for introducing certain applications for a residence permit in Belgium with a view to covering administrative costs relating to the processing of such applications.
Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: processing fee, residence permit
In the first half of 2015 Latvia will assume the Presidency of the Council of the EU. The Presidency will focus on the implementation of the Strategic Guidelines in the area of freedom, security and justice (June 2014), as well as on the respective follow-up initiatives.
