23 June 2011
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
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Main Theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Keywords: acquisition of citizenship, Belgian Parliament, Naturalisation
17 June 2011
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
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Main Theme: International Protection, Migration
Keywords: EU directive, Long-term Residents
16 June 2011
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.
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Main Theme: Economic migration
Keywords: highly skilled workers, labour policy, labour shortages, low-skilled workers, mobility, work permit
15 June 2011
On 9 and 10 June 2011, the Justice and Home Affairs of the Council of the European Union took place in Luxembourg. On the agenda of the home affairs ministers stood, amongst others, amendments on FRONTEX-rules and the Schengen evaluation of Bulgaria and Romania.
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Main Theme: Asylum, Migration, Economic migration, Borders & Visa
Keywords: Council
15 June 2011
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.
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Main Theme: Asylum, International Protection
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum statistics
15 June 2011
This final Conference that took place on 15th June 2011 has presented some of the outcomes of research conducted within the framework of the European project Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences
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Main Theme: Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: EU Migration Policy, immigration policies
01 June 2011
On 1 June 2011, the European Commission presents its revised proposals amending the Directives on Asylum Procedures and on Reception Conditions.
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Main Theme: Asylum, Reception, International Protection
Keywords: asylum procedure, EU directive, reception
01 June 2011
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.
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Main Theme: Asylum, International Protection
Keywords: asylum statistics, CGRS
01 June 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) publishes the English version of its Annual Report on Trafficking & Smuggeling 2009, which was published in French and Dutch in October 2010
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Main Theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: smuggling, trafficking, victims of human trafficking
31 May 2011
This ACP-EU Council of ministers addressed questions of migration and discussed progress in the ongoing ACP-EU dialogue on migration. Ministers agreed to reach concrete results to strengthen the operational cooperation in the areas of visa, remittances and readmission over the coming year.
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Main Theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: ACP
25 May 2011
On May 24, 2011, the European Commission presented its proposals for a better managment of migration flows from the Southern Mediterranean region and for amendements to the Visa Regulation
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Main Theme: Migration, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
20 May 2011
On 19 May 2011, the 14th EU-Russia meeting on justice and home affairs took place in Russia
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Main Theme: Migration, Borders & Visa
06 May 2011
The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) launches a call for papers on research on migration and integration policy
Deadline for papers: 19 October 2011
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional, Integration
04 May 2011
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecila Malmström presented the paper at a press conference on 4 May 2011
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional
18 April 2011
VALENTINA POP - EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France on Sunday blocked the passage of Italian trains in order to prevent Tunisian migrants from entering its territory, a move promptly slammed by Rome. EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy meanwhile appealed for Paris not to "exaggerate" the migration issue
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Main Theme: Economic migration, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
29 March 2011
This Eurostat Newsrelease is presenting an overview of the asylum trends in the EU27 for the year 2010.
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Main Theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions, asylum outcomes, comparability, Eurostat
21 March 2011
The Council adopted the new directive on trafficking in human beings as proposed by the Commission last spring
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Main Theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
10 March 2011
The Belgian National Contact Point participated in an international workshop on “Migration challenges for pre-accession countries in South-East Europe” in Belgrade and gave a lecture on "The European Migration Network and other international instruments.
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Main Theme: Migration
10 March 2011
The communication services of the CGRS and of Fedasil have jointly published, with the support of the European Refugee Fund, an information brochure “Asylum in Belgium”.
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Main Theme: Reception, International Protection
15 February 2011
The European Commission presented an EU agenda for reinforcing the rights of the child. It includes a series of concrete actions, including promoting specific safeguards and procedural guarantees for children seeking asylum and child specific reception measures.
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Main Theme: Vulnerable groups
Keywords: detention, representation, rights, unaccompanied minors
24 January 2011
Commissioner Malmström presents Action Plan on visa liberalisation with the Republic of Moldova
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Main Theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: Malmström, moldova, visa liberalisation
21 January 2011
Returning asylum seekers to Greece violates the European Convention on Human Rights, says ECtHR
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Main Theme: International Protection
19 January 2011
The federal State Secretary for Migration and Asylum Policies Melchior Wathelet has given a pressconference presenting the asylum and migration policies in 2010 and providing an overview of some statistical data.