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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: artificial intelligence, border security, fundamental rights
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.
Hoofdthema: Grenscontrole & Visa
Trefwoorden: buitengrens, grensbeheer, grensbeveiliging
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: European integrated border management, return decision, border control, fundamental rights
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen Information System, border management
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.
Hoofdthema: Grenscontrole & Visa
Trefwoorden: border control, border management
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: earthquake, visa application
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: advanced passenger information
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Today, the Commission is expanding on the concept of controlled centres as well as short-term measures that could be taken to improve the processing of migrants being disembarked in the EU, and giving a first outline of the possible way forward for the establishment of regional disembarkation arrangements with third countries.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: controlled centre, regional disembarkation arrangement
On the 31st of May and 1st of June, the Bulgarian Contact Point of the EMN - in the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council - organized the EMN Annual Conference. The conference was dedicated to challenges and success factors in managing migration flows.
Hoofdthema: International Protection, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: migration management, EMN Annual Conference
In 2018 viert het Europees Migratienetwerk (EMN) zijn tiende verjaardag. Ter gelegenheid hiervan houdt EMN op 15 mei een conferentie in Brussel.
Hoofdthema: Integratie, Regularisatie, Staatloosheid, Kwetsbare groepen, Externe Dimensie, Statistieken, Ad Hoc Vragen, Asiel, Opvang, Internationale bescherming, Migratie, Economische migratie, Gezinshereniging en -vorming, Studie en vorming, Burgerschap & Nationaliteit, Grenscontrole & Visa, Irreguliere migratie, Terugkeer & Readmissie, Mensensmokkel & Mensenhandel
Trefwoorden: EMN conferentie
Today, the Belgian Minister of Home Affairs, the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration met with the British Home Secretary in London to discuss the issue of transit migration.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: transit migration, transit migrants, United Kingdom
Today, Frontex published its Risk Analysis for 2018, which concentrates on the scope of Frontex operational activities and, in particular, on irregular migration at the external borders of the EU and Schengen Associated Countries.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: Frontex, risk analysis, border management
The system that will register entry, exit and refusal of entry information of third country nationals crossing the external borders of the Schengen area will come into operation, by 2020 at the latest.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: entry exit system, smart border
Op 26 oktober 2017 werd de algemene beleidsnota asiel en migratie van de Staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie gepubliceerd. De beleidsnota brengt een overzicht van de belangrijkste verwezenlijkingen en beleidsprioriteiten op het vlak van asiel en migratie.
The European Commission published a mid-term review of what has been achieved so far in delivering the European Agenda on Migration. It also sets out new initiatives from the Commission to address key areas, and identifies where further efforts are needed in the coming months.
Hoofdthema: External Dimension, Asylum, International Protection, Migration, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: European Agenda on Migration, relocation, resettlement, return handbook
In order to preserve and strengthen the Schengen area, the Commission is proposing to update the Schengen Borders Code to adapt the rules for the reintroduction of temporary internal border controls to the current needs to respond to evolving and persistent serious threats to public policy or internal security.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen
De Internationale Organisatie voor Migratie (IOM) heeft data gepubliceerd over het aantal binnekomsten in Europa. In vergelijking met de 273.000 binnenkomsten die zijn toegekomen tussen januari en 27 augustus, zijn er ongeveer 121.000 personen toegekomen in dezelfde periode dit jaar. Bovendien, waren er geen bercihten van dodelijke slachtoffers in de Middellandse Zee sinds 9 augustus.
Following up on the Commission's Action Plan to support Italy from 4 July, the EU Trust Fund for Africa adopted today a programme worth €46 million to reinforce the integrated migration and border management capacities of the Libyan authorities.
Hoofdthema: External Dimension, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: EU Trust Fund for Africa, Libya, border management
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: visa-free travel
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen, border control
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen borders code, database
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.
Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: public order, Travellers
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.