The 18th edition of the EMN Bulletin provides information on developments at EU and national level (from January to March 2017) regarding the Common European Asylum System; unaccompanied minors and vulnerable groups; legal migration and integration; the management of the EU external borders; irregular migration and return; and trafficking in Human Beings.

This edition includes information – inter alia - on:

At EU level:

• The renewed EU Action Plan on Return and the Commission’s recommendation to Member States on making returns more effective.
• Commission’s progress report on relocation and resettlement.
• EASO-Frontex Cooperation Plan for 2017-2018.
• Frontex Annual Risk Analysis for 2017.
• …

At national level:

• BE: New law introduces willingness and efforts to integrate as a general residence condition.
• DE : Creation of a new « Centre for the Support of Returns », to better coordinate the enforcement of return orders.
• LU : New law reduces the required duration of residence for naturalisation from 7 to 5 years and adds first-generation right of birthplace.
• …

More developments and other information in the Bulletin (see PDF above) !