Today, the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe agreed on concrete action on protecting refugee and migrant children.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: migrant child
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
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
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
Eurostat releases today data on asylum decisions taken by EU Member States in 2016.
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Hoofdthema: Data & Statistics, International Protection
Trefwoorden: asylum decisions, resettlement
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
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
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
The Commission is today setting out actions to reinforce the protection of all migration children at all stages of the process and to ensure a closer link between the asylum and child protection services.
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Hoofdthema: Vulnerable groups
Trefwoorden: migrant child, Action Plan on Unaccompanied Minors
Today, the Commission adopted its eleventh progress report on the EU's emergency relocation and resettlement schemes, assessing actions taken since 2 March 2017.
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Hoofdthema: Asylum
Trefwoorden: resettlement, relocation
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
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
Eurostat published a news release on the number of asylum applications in 2016 and published an article on asylum applications and decisions for 2016 on its website.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Trefwoorden: asylum decisions, asylum applications
In its judgement delivered today, the Court of Justice has ruled that Member States are not required – under EU law – to grant a humanitarian visa to persons who wish to enter their territory with a view to applying for asylum. However, they are free to do so on the basis of their national law.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: Court of Justice of the European Union, Syria
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
Het Commissariaat-generaal voor de Vluchtelingen en de Staatlozen (CGVS) heeft een nieuwe gids gepubliceerd die informatie verschaft aan niet-begeleide minderjarigen die asiel aanvragen in België, alsook aan hun voogd.
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Hoofdthema: Asiel
Trefwoorden: CGRS, asylum procedure
Today, the Commission adopted its ninth progress report on the EU's emergency relocation and resettlement schemes, assessing actions taken since 8 December 2016.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection
Trefwoorden: relocation, resettlement
On 3 February 2017, the 28 Heads of States discussed the external dimension of migration at the informal summit in Malta. They adopted the Malta Declaration.
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Hoofdthema: External Dimension
Trefwoorden: Malta Declaration, Libya, Central Mediterranean route
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.
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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: processing fee, residence permit
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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Hoofdthema: Migration
Trefwoorden: processing fee, application for a residence permit
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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Hoofdthema: Migration, Integration
Trefwoorden: Integration, newcomers declaration
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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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.
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Hoofdthema: International Protection, Borders & Visa, Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: Mediterranean
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.