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Today the Council of Ministers decided that the mandatory fee migrants have to pay when applying for certain residence permits will increase.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: processing fee, application for a residence permit
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Today a new law enters (partly) into force inserting a general residence condition into the Immigration Act. The Immigration Office can now put an end to a residence permit if the person cannot put forward provable integration efforts.
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Main theme: Migration, Integration
Keywords: Integration, newcomers declaration
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The Passenger Name Record (PNR) law has been adopted in Parliament in December 2016. It was published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 25 January 2017. On the basis of this law, carriers will be obliged to send data on their passengers travelling from, to, or across Belgium to a central database.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: public order, Travellers
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Ahead of the meeting of Heads of State or Government in Malta on 3 February 2017, the Commission and the High Representative/Vice-President have set out their contribution to the discussion on how to better manage migration and save lives along the Central Mediterranean route.
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Main theme: International Protection, Borders & Visa, Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: Mediterranean
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Today, the Commission is taking stock of the progress achieved and the work still needed in making the new European Border and Coast Guard Agency fully operational.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: European Border and Coast Guard, European Commission
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On 27 January, the Migration Policy Institute organizes a webinar on "European Union Third-Country Partnerships: Where Do We Go From Here?"
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: MPI, cooperation
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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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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: asylum law, migration law, Odysseus Network
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The Odysseus Annual Conference 2017 is entitled "Beyond the crisis? The State of Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in the EU". It will critically assess developments that took place in 2016, and look into 2017.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: Odysseus Network
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According to the Missing Migrants Project, an estimate of 7495 men, women and children migrants or refugees died or were reported missing across five continents in 2016. That is almost 20 victims per day and the number may not include them all.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration
Keywords: Missing Migrants Project, migrant death, refugee death
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Authorized officials of the Belgian Immigration Office have been granted direct access to certain parts of the central database of the Belgian police.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: Immigration Office, Police
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The European Migration Platform will meet for the third time to focus on access to Europe, examining safe legal aternatives to the perilous journeys migrants undertake, how to access services upon arrival and rights they are entitled to.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: Allemagne, Sweden, Slovaquie, civil society
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From 1 January to 30 June 2017, Malta will hold the presidency of the Council of the EU. The presidency will focus on 6 key areas: migration, single market, security, social inclusion, Europe's neighbourhood and maritime sector.
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: Maltese Presidency, Council of the European Union
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The Commission is today proposing to improve the Schengen Information System (SIS) to close information gaps and to contribute to a stronger control of external borders and sustainable EU Security Union.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: external border, Schengen Information System
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Civil society organizations that have experience in the issue of migrants' access to Europe, services and rights, and that wish to actively contribute to the European Migration Forum, must submit their application form no later than today!
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Main theme: Migration
Keywords: European Migration Forum, civil society
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Social networks and online classified sites are being used by traffickers to market, recruit, sell their services. This conference looks into this issue and its impact in more depth.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: Slovakia
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In october 2016, Fedasil has opened a new return desk in Charleroi, where migrants can receive information and assistance on voluntary return.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Keywords: return desk, voluntary return
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In 2016, the annual Metropolis conference will take place in Aichi-Nagoya (Japan) fro 24 to 28 October and will focus on the theme: creating trust through wisdom on migration and integration.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: metropolis, Japan
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CEMO organises a study morning in Brussels on the topic of the experience of exile through family reunification: myths, procedures and uprooting.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Keywords: CEMO, exile
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The REDIAL conference proposes for discussion some of the most contentious issues in the implementation of the Return Directive.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: return directive
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Today, the new agency aimed at strengthening Europe's external borders is legally operational.
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Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: European Border and Coast Guard
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Today, the European Commission is reporting on the progress made on the relocation and resettlement schemes and the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement.