Myria heeft de eerste katern van het jaarverslag 2023 gepubliceerd. Met "Toegang tot het grondgebied" stelt Myria de voornaamste cijfers voor rond visa kort en lang verblijf maar ook rond de verschillende motieven en nationaliteiten die in 2022 in het oog sprongen.

Ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Act vote in the European Parliament, a coalition of human rights organisations is calling on EU lawmakers to include provisions in the proposed EU AI Act to protect people from AI surveillance technologies used in migration.

Vandaag heeft Italië de noodtoestand uitgeroepen vanwege de sterke stijging van het aantal migranten dat via de gevaarlijke Middellandse Zeeroute aan de kust van Italië aankomt. Het is voor het eerst sinds 2011 dat Italië zijn toevlucht neemt tot zo'n drastische maatregel.

Verschillende grote uitdagingen - waaronder de COVID-19-pandemie en de Russische inval in Oekraïne - hadden een impact op het beheer van de buitengrenzen van de EU en op migratietrends en stimuleerden beleidsontwikkelingen die werden samengevat in een briefing die vandaag door het Europees Parlement werd gepubliceerd.

Today, the Commission adopted a Communication that presents the strategic framework for European integrated border management (EIBM) for 5 years and a Recommendation to Member States on the mutual recognition of return decisions and expediting returns.

In the first two months of 2023, the number of irregular border crossings reported by national authorities increased to 28 130, roughly in line with the same period last year. The Central Mediterranean and Western Balkan routes remain the most active.

Today the upgraded Schengen Information System (SIS) enters into operation to enhance security and border management in Europe. The renewed SIS is being enhanced to include new categories of alerts, biometrics such as palm prints, fingermarks, and DNA records for missing persons, and additional tools to combat crime and terrorism.

Op 23 en 24 februari 2023 ging in Athene de tweede Europese conferentie inzake grensbeheer door. De deelnemende lidstaten onderstreepten onder meer het belang van een doeltreffende controle van de buitengrenzen van de EU en eisten wettelijke, financiële, operationele en technische maatregelen, alsmede een aanpak over de gehele lijn om dit te waarborgen.

People affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria who wish to travel to Belgium to receive support from their families will have their visa application handled faster.

The Commission is proposing two new Regulations to strengthen the use of advanced passenger information. The new rules, that will replace the 2004 API Directive, will enhance external border controls and the fight against serious crime and terrorism within the EU.

An integral part of managing the EU’s external borders is respect for people’s fundamental rights. A new guidance from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) suggests how EU countries should set up independent national schemes to monitor fundamental rights compliance at the EU’s external borders.

The Academy of European Law (ERA) organizes its annual conference on EU Border Management between 9 June 2021 and11 June 2021. 

On 2 June 2021, the European Commission presented its new Schengen Strategy, which was accompanied by a proposal to revise the Schengen evaluation and monitoring mechanism.

 

 

Op 10 december 2019 organiseert EMN België zijn jaarlijks policy event over asiel en migratie, waarbij recente nationale en EU ontwikkelingen op het vlak van internationale bescherming, legale migratie en integratie en irreguliere migratie en terugkeer worden besproken.

_{The conference 'From Tampere 20 to Tampere 2.0: Towards a new programme (2020-2024) for EU migration and asylum policies 20 years after the Tampere conclusions?' was held in Helsinki on the 24th and the 25th of October.}

The European Commission is presenting its Second Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings.

On 10 September, the Belgian Minister of Security and the Interior and the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration presented a 9-point action plan on the fight against irregular transit migration.

In his State of the Union, President Jean-Claude Juncker presented proposals to ensure full EU solidarity on migration and better protection of Europe's external borders. The Commission is proposing to reinforce the European Border and Coast Guard and the EU's Agency for Asylum and is proposing a targeted review of the Return Directive.

As of 11 August, irregularly staying families with minor children can be detained with a view to removal in family housing on the grounds of the closed detention centre 127bis.