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In het kader van het Estse voorzitterschap van de Europese Raad, zal het Estse Nationale Contactpunt van het EMN op 21 en 22 september 2017 een tweedaagse conferentie organiseren. De conferentie zal worden gewijd aan ‘The EU in the Global Race for Talents: Challenges and Solutions in Strengthening EU’s Competitiveness’.
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Hoofdthema: Economische migratie
Trefwoorden: EMN Annual Conference, Estonia
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As from today Ukrainian citizens holding biometric passports can travel to the Schengen Zone without a visa for a period of 90 days within any 180-day period for purposes other than working.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: visa-free travel
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Justice and Home Affairs Ministers met on 8 and 9 June 2017. Home Affairs issues included the reform of the CEAS, European travel information and authorisation systems, Schengen information system, Information systems interoperability and return policy. The protection of children in migration was also put forward.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum, Migration
Trefwoorden: Justice and Home Affairs Council
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As from today, potential victims of trafficking are issued an annex 15 valid for 45 days during the reflection period, following modification of article 61/2 §2 of the Immigration Act.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: residence document
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CNCD 11.11.11 and other organizations including CIRÉ, Médecins du Monde and Amnesty International, organize debates, testimonies and social and cultural encounters in different regions in Belgium to promote a different approach on migrations.
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Hoofdthema: Integration, Migration
Trefwoorden: migratory justice, civic assembly
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Today, the thematic Council of Ministers on security, justice and defence approved a series of measures, including the proposal of the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration to increase the capacity of the closed detention centres for irregularly staying migrants.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: detention center, irregular migrant
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The conference of the Norwegian National Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Oslo on 1 June 2017, will focus on the methods and technology used to establish migrants' identities.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum, Migration
Trefwoorden: Norway, EMN conference
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The Conference of the Dutch Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in the Hague on 18 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in the Netherlands and Europe.
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Hoofdthema: Family reunification
Trefwoorden: Netherlands
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The Annual Conference 2017 will focus on the Reform of the EU Legal Migration System.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: legal migration, labour shortage
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The European Commission is today recommending that Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway phase out the temporary controls currently in place at some of their internal Schengen borders over the next six months.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen, border control
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Today, two new laws have entered into force. They focus on the procedure to end the residence rights and organized the removal of foreign nationals legally residing in Belgium for reasons of public order or national security.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: public order, foreign terrorist fighter
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Op 26 april 2017 lanceerde het Europees Migratienetwerk (EMN) haar jaarlijkse beleidsrapport over asiel en migratie in 2016 tijdens een conferentie in Brussel.
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Hoofdthema: Migratie
Trefwoorden: jaarrapport
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Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published today a press release with 2015 data on the acquisition of citizenship in the EU. The main conclusions are that EU Member States granted citizenship to fewer persons in 2015, and Moroccans, Albanians and Turks remain the main recipients.
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Hoofdthema: Citizenship & Nationality
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Following up on the Joint Communication on the Central Mediterranean Route and the Malta Declaration, the EU Trust Fund for Africa upon proposal from the European Commission, adopted today a €90 million programme to step up the protection of migrants and reinforce migration management in Libya.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: EU Trust Fund, Libya
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The first edition of the Antwerp Summer School ‘Europe: Diversity and Migration’ addresses the issue of superdiversity from an interdisciplinary perspective and in doing so, provides participants with concrete insights, information and tools based on theoretical perspectives, empirical case studies and field visits. In doing so it reveals the interrelations between the micro-, meso- and macro-level processes concerned allowing for fine-grained and in-depth understandings of the complex relationships between migration and integration processes.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
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The Conference of the Swedish National Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Stockholm on 12 May 2017, will focus on family reunification in Sweden and in the EU.
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Hoofdthema: Family reunification
Trefwoorden: Sweden
EMN DE NCP Conference on Return Counselling, Integrated Return Management and Reintegration (Berlin)
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This conference of the German Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Berlin on 4 May, focuses on return counselling, integrated return management and reintegration.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: Germany
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Today, a Royal Decree was published in the Official Gazette which details the type of residence permit the fee can apply to, and what the maximum amount of said fee is.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: residence permit, processing fee
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On 18 March 2017, a regulation amending the Schengen borders code was published in the EU Official Journal. The amendment aims to reinforce checks against relevant databases at the external borders.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen borders code, database
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Today the European Commission presented new measures in the context of the review of the EU return policy which was announced in the Malta Declaration from 3 February 2017.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: EU Action Plan on Return
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Today is the opening of a photo exhibition focusing on Melilla, Europe's Southern border. This exhibition is the outcome of a one year and a half project initiated by four youths graduated in journalism.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: photo, Melilla, border control
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Foreign nationals might have to pay a fee of maximum 50 euro in certain municipalities when they renew, extend or replace a temporary residence permit at the level of the municipalities. Modifications by the Law of 18 December 2016, published today in the Belgian Official Gazette, made it possible for municipalities to collect this fee.
