The European Parliament adopted a revised version of the asylum directive on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection and the content of the protection granted.
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: protection criteria, qualification directive, sexual orientation
The Catholic University of Louvain will organize a restricted seminar about the first findings of a research project concerning the implementation into the Belgian law of the Dublin Regulation and the Qualification Directive
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Main Theme: Asylum
Keywords: asylum law, Dublin Regulation, qualification directive
The new website of the Belgian Immigration Office is online
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Main Theme: Migration
Keywords: Immigration Office
PREMIG is a four-year research project 2011-2014 based at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). The project addresses return migration from Norway and the United Kingdom
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: forced return, return, voluntary return
The EMN - European Migration Network has just released its new Annual Policy Report 2010
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Main Theme: Asylum, Migration, Cross-sectional
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
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: International Protection, Data & Statistics
According to the two-yearly study, Belgium scores best on speed, cost and conditions for obtaining a work permit for higher educated people, compared with the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France.
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Main Theme: Economic migration
Keywords: highly skilled workers, residence permit
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: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum decisions
ECRE has published a detailed legal analysis of the key provisions of the Amended Commission's proposal to recast the Asylum Procedures Directive published on 1 June 2011.
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: EU directive
The Netherlands EMN NCP now also has it's own website: www.emnnetherlands.nl
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Main Theme: Migration
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: International Protection
Keywords: asylum applications
The Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) released its newest quarterly report, covering January - March 2011
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Main Theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking, External Dimension
Keywords: border control, Frontex, Lampedusa
On July 28, 1951, the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees was formally adopted
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: refugee convention, UNHCR
Migrants from third countries represent around four percent of the total EU population. The
composition of EU's population is thus changing. This leads to new conditions for social cohesion and government response to public concerns.
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Main Theme: Integration
Keywords: Immigrant integration, Social cohesion
EU leaders on 24 June agreed to establish a "safeguard mechanism" allowing the re-introduction of internal borders in exceptional circumstances
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Main Theme: Migration, Borders & Visa
Keywords: EU Council, Schengen Agreement
This week 25 refugees from Eritrea and Congo, who got into a deadlock in Libya, arrived in Belgium.
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Main Theme: International Protection, Vulnerable groups
Keywords: Libya, resettlement, UNHCR
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
The Belgian Immigration Office started the SEFOR Project, which aims at ensuring the follow-up of the migrants having received an order to leave the territory, if they are effectively returning to their country of origin, voluntarily or not (SEFOR meaning "Sensibilisation, Follow-up, Return)
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: voluntary return
The Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has developed an inventory of information sources and institutions dealing with migration issues. Called migratory, this inventory identifies over 1800 sources located in the UNECE region.
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Main Theme: Migration, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration statistics, UNECE
The European Council has launched its virtual Resource Centre on Free Movement & Migration
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Main Theme: Asylum
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
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
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
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
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.