Fedasil heeft aangekondigd tijdelijk gebruik te maken van centra in Bredene (Vlaanderen) en in Theux (Wallonië) om aanvragers voor internationale bescherming op te vangen tot maart 2025. Beide locaties zijn in het verleden al door Fedasil gebruikt, telkens voor een periode van enkele maanden.
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Hoofdthema: Opvang
Trefwoorden: opvangcapaciteit, opvangcentrum, tekort
Frankrijk heeft aangekondigd dat er grenscontroles zullen plaatsvinden op zijn grenzen met België, Luxemburg, Duitsland, de Zwitserse Confederatie, Italië en Spanje (land, lucht en zee) van 1 november 2024 tot 30 april 2025. Vergelijkbare controles werden al uitgevoerd van 1 mei 2024 tot 31 oktober 2024 in het kader van de Olympische en Paralympische Spelen die in de zomer van 2024 in Frankrijk werden georganiseerd.
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Hoofdthema: Grenscontrole & Visa
Trefwoorden: Schengen, interne grenscontrole, grenscontrole
From 2014 to 2023, Esperanto provided shelter and support to 156 foreign minors victims of human trafficking and/or aggravated smuggling. According to Myria, who analysed the figures, just over half of these 156 young people were victims of sexual exploitation or were forced to commit criminal acts.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: child victim of trafficking, sexual exploitation, economic exploitation, exploitation of begging, Esperanto
Nicole de Moor said that applications relating to 859 persons have already been processed in accelerated procedure since February 2024. In 96 % of cases, applicants were not granted protection status. Ms de Moor wants to focus more on prevention to prevent people who do not need protection from applying for international protection in Belgium.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: application for international protection, accelerated procedure, safe country of origin, fast-track procedure
In its overview of national forced return monitoring systems across the EU in 2023, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) noted that only one EU Member State did not monitor its national forced return operations in 2023. It also highlighted persistent challenges that affect the transparency and effectiveness of monitoring operations.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: forced return, monitoring
Op 28 oktober 2024 ondertekenden de Europese Commissie en het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken van Noord-Macedonië een overeenkomst over samenwerking met het EMN, waardoor Noord-Macedonië een van de waarnemende landen van het netwerk wordt. Noord-Macedonië zal bijdragen aan de doelstellingen van het EMN door alle bijeenkomsten bij te wonen en bij te dragen aan de studies en rapporten van het netwerk.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectionaal
Trefwoorden: waarnemend land; Europees Migratienetwerk
As of 24 October 2024, the centre for registering applications for international protection is located at rue Belliard 68 in 1000 Brussels. Applications can still be registered in the Pacheco building until Wednesday, 23 October 2024.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: applicant for international protection, registration, registration centre
On 21 October 2024, the European Ombudsman closed her inquiry on respect for human rights in the context of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). She concluded, inter alia, that the Commission should set out the criteria on which the suspension of contracts due to violations of human rights in the implementation of EU-funded projects in Tunisia would be based. These criteria should be made public.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Trefwoorden: memorandum of understanding, Tunisia, human rights, border management, border control
Op 17 en 18 oktober 2024 nam EMN België deel aan de Odysseus Netwerk Conferentie 2024 over EU Wetgeving na het Pact. Dit evenement bood EMN België de kans om een diepgaand inzicht te krijgen in enkele van de 485 pagina's van de nieuwe wettelijke instrumenten die door het nieuwe Pact inzake Migratie en Asiel werden geïntroduceerd.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectionaal
Trefwoorden: Nieuw Pact inzake Migratie en Asiel, implementatie, solidariteit, verantwoordelijkheid, buitengrens, screening, fundamenteel recht
On the occasion of European Anti-Trafficking Day, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has warned of the increased risk of human trafficking created by restrictive immigration policies and failure to address the vulnerabilities of migrants and asylum seekers.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
During the European Council on 17 October 2024, EU leaders adopted conclusions, among other things, on migration. They called, inter alia, for determined action to facilitate, increase, and speed up returns from the EU. They invited the European Commission to submit a new legislative proposal, as a matter of urgency.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: return directive, external action, external border, border control, migration instrumentalization
In a recent judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union found that an administrative authority which rejects an application for a residence permit based on national law and, consequently, finds that the third-country national concerned is staying illegally on the territory of the Member State in question, must ensure compliance with the principle of non-refoulement, by reviewing, in the light of that principle, the return decision previously adopted against that national in the context of a procedure for international protection.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: illegally staying person, return decision, non-refoulement, effective remedy
De Glossary werkgroep komt regelmatig bijeen om de "EMN Asylum & Migration Glossary" up-to-date te houden. Deze 62ste bijeenkomst, georganiseerd door EMN België, was een gelegenheid om de samenwerking met partners te bespreken, vooral ter voorbereiding van de opname van nieuwe termen met betrekking tot het Pact inzake Migratie en Asiel.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectionaal
Trefwoorden: glossarium, nieuwe migratie- en asielpact
According to preliminary data collected by Frontex, the most significant declines in irregular border crossings were observed on the Western Balkan and Central Mediterranean routes, with a 79% and 64% decline, respectively. The Eastern Land Border and Western African routes saw the highest increases, at 192% and 100%, respectively.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: irregular border crossing, migratory route
In a letter to the 27 EU Member States, Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Commission will present a new proposal for legislation to ensure solid rules for the removal of irregularly staying third-country nationals, including those posing a threat to public order or internal security. She also referred to possible "return hubs" outside the EU, drawing lessons from the start of operations of the Italy-Albania protocol.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: efficient return, return hub, mutual recognition of return decisions, security
According to Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, 5.806 persons obtained Belgian nationality in July 2024. The main countries of origin of people who acquired Belgian nationality in July are Morocco, Romania, Syria, Afghanistan and Italy.
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Hoofdthema: Data & Statistics
Trefwoorden: access to nationality, Belgian nationality
EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced that the Entry-Exit System (EES) which aims to modernise EU border management and which was supposed to start on 10 November 2024, has been postponed with no new date set. Ms Johansson suggested that the EU may roll out the EES gradually.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: entry exit system, border management, biometric check
A few days after 17 European countries called on the European Commission to submit a new legislative proposal for more effective returns, Justice and Home Affairs Ministers discussed the issue of return during a working lunch in Luxembourg. They tasked experts with starting to explore innovative ideas related to returns.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: effective return, irregularly staying third-country national, rejected asylum seekers
During the plenary debate on the reintroduction of internal border controls in the Schengen area and its impact on EU free movement, Commissioner Ylva Johansson underlined that internal border controls must be temporary, proportionate and a measure of last resort. She underlined that alternative measures should always be prioritised.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: free movement, internal border control
In a recent judgement in Case C‑134/23, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) clarified that Article 38 of Directive 2013/32/EU does not preclude legislation of a Member State designating a third country as generally safe for certain categories of applicants for international protection, even if that third country has suspended, in general terms and without any prospect of a contrary development, the admission or readmission of those applicants to its territory.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: applicant for international protection, safe third country, Turkey, readmission
In a recent judgement, the Court of Justice of the European Union concluded that some of the discriminatory measures against women in Afghanistan, namely forced marriage and the lack of protection against gender-based violence and domestic violence, must be classified alone as "acts of persecution" and that other measures, taken as a whole, given their cumulative effect and the fact that they are applied deliberately and systematically, constitute such acts.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Afghan woman, act of persecution, gender, nationality
In a non-paper, seventeen European countries called on the European Commission to submit a new proposal for more effective returns. The letter emphasises the need for a stricter EU return system with clearer obligations for cooperation from the returnees and less interpretation by the European Court of Justice.
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Hoofdthema: Return & Readmission
Trefwoorden: effective return
The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGVS) announced on 2 October 2024 that the notification of decisions granting or refusing subsidiary protection status to applicants from Lebanon is suspended until the CGRS has sufficient objective information to assess the security situation in Lebanon.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: applicant for international protection, Lebanon, refugee status, subsidiary protection status
On 1 October 2024, Nicole de Moor stated that proportionally speaking, more Palestinian applicants for international protection come to Belgium than to other European Member States. She also confirmed that the protection rate for Palestinian applicants had increased in recent years.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Palestinian, applicant for international protection, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Myria has published the fourth thematic section of its 2024 annual report. In this section, entitled « Economic migration, free movement and students » Myria notes that more third-country nationals were posted to Belgium in 2023 than in 2022. Posted workers from third countries are more vulnerable to exploitation than EU-based posted workers. Therefore, they urgently need increased legal protection, according to Myria.