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In a press release from 9 September 2024, the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor reacted to the Hungarian government’s recent threats to send migrants to Brussels. She advocated for a joint, coordinated policy, in which respect for European values and international obligations are central.
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Hoofdthema: Irregular Migration
Trefwoorden: migration instrumentalization, European cooperation, mutual trust
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Due to the sharp rise in applications for the equivalence of foreign diplomas in Flanders and the time- and labour-intensive investigations involved, waiting times can reach seven months. This impacts the integration of migrants into the labour market.
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Hoofdthema: Integration
Trefwoorden: recognition of qualifications, diploma, equivalence
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De high-level EMN conferentie in kader van het Hongaarse voorzitterschap zal zich richten op mogelijke manieren om terugkeer effectiever en efficiënter te laten verlopen. Speciale aandacht zal gaan naar belangrijke aspecten van de terugkeerprocedure, interne samenhang, samenwerking met derde landen en digitalisering ter ondersteuning van het gemeenschappelijke EU-systeem voor terugkeer.
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Hoofdthema: Terugkeer & Readmissie
Trefwoorden: terugkeer, Terugkeer & Readmissie, vrijwillige terugkeer; re-integratie
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Students, who were originally from Syria and Congo before becoming refugees in Egypt and Uganda, have the opportunity to start this new academic year in Belgian universities thanks to the legal and sustainable migration pathway offered by the university corridors.
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Hoofdthema: Study § Training
Trefwoorden: university corridor, legal pathway, refugee
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The Walloon administration announces that new regulations come into force on 1 September 2024 regarding salaried economic migration for foreign workers in Wallonia. The system remains largely unchanged in its principles, still falling within the broader framework of the Single Permit for work and residence authorization for foreign workers. However, a new decree of the Walloon Government organizes new features and modifications.
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Hoofdthema: Economic migration
Trefwoorden: foreign workers, employer, single permit, EU blue card
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The law of 10 March 2024 amending the law of 15 December 1980 on the right to family reunification comes into force on 1 September 2024. The changes have an impact among other things on the right to family reunification for parents of accompanied minors with international protection, the right to family reunification for stateless persons, the assessment of minorhood in the asylum procedure or residence procedure for stateless person, etc.
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Hoofdthema: Family reunification
Trefwoorden: right to family reunification, application for family reunification
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The law of 10 March 2024 which creates a residence status as a stateless person in Belgium, comes into force on 1 September 2024. Applications for admission to stay on the grounds of statelessness must now be submitted directly to the Immigration Office by registered mail.
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Hoofdthema: Statelessness
Trefwoorden: application for statelessness, admission to stay, stateless persons
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Dit evenement zal de nieuwe EMN - Rode Kruis Inform over praktijken en uitdagingen bij de behandeling van slachtoffers van foltering en mishandeling in de context van internationale en tijdelijke bescherming lanceren. Het evenement zal de belangrijkste bevindingen van de inform belichten, ingaan op procedures in EMN landenleden en waarnemende landen, en inzichten putten uit de aanpak van het Rode Kruis en de ervaring van nationale Rode Kruis afdelingen in verschillende EU-lidstaten.
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Hoofdthema: Kwetsbare groepen
Trefwoorden: foltering, internationale bescherming, mishandeling
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The current weather conditions increase the risk that human smugglers will send groups of transmigrants, including small children, out to sea in overcrowded rubber boats, often with inadequate life jackets. To avoid this, the West Coast police zone and the Federal Police require special attention for people who cross the Channel from the Belgian coast to the United Kingdom in small boats.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: transmigrant, small boat, English channel
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This legally oriented European conference focuses on the legislation adopted on 14 May 2024 under the framework of the Pact on Migration and Asylum. It aims to provide the first legal analysis of all these complex legal instruments and their interconnections, including practical aspects in relation with the topics covered.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: Odysseus Network, New Pact on Migration and Asylum
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While not a new phenomenon, the exploitation of workers employed in the nail industry has gained increased attention in recent years. Multiple reports point to this sector as being a target of choice for human trafficking and economic exploitation.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: economic exploitation, nail bar
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According to Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, 5.037 persons obtained Belgian nationality in May 2024. The main countries of origin of people who acquired Belgian nationality in May are Morocco, Romania, Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey.
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Hoofdthema: Data & Statistics
Trefwoorden: access to nationality, Belgian nationality
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As of 1 August 2024, the European Commission will support nine Member States, including Belgium, in preparing their National Implementation Plans for the Pact on Migration and Asylum. These countries will receive targeted support to carry out situational analysis and identify the necessary actions to implement the Pact in line with the Common Implementation Plan.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: New Pact on Migration and Asylum, common implementation plan, national implementation plan, vulnerable persons, guardianship
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The latest report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) identifies systemic gaps and obstacles to investigating rights violations at EU borders. The report suggests concrete steps to ensure more effective investigations into incidents of loss of life and ill-treatment at the EU’s borders.
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Hoofdthema: Borders & Visa
Trefwoorden: fundamental rights, violation, investigation, external border
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Tuesday 30 July is the International Day against Trafficking in Persons. On this occasion, the Halle-Vilvoorde public prosecutor's office, together with the Labour Auditor's Office, invite as many people as possible to be vigilant and to report suspicious situations via the Belgian helpline for victims of human trafficking or via the new telephone number: 078/055.800.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: victim of trafficking, national helpline
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This election year will be the fourth time that non-Belgians who reside in Belgium can vote in municipal elections. Yet participation remains low, as shown by the figures released by the FPS Interior ahead of the registration deadline, on 31 July 2024.
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Hoofdthema: Integration
Trefwoorden: election, vote, foreign national
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In a judgement from 29 July 2024, the Court of Justice of the EU states that a Member State may reject an abusive application for an authorisation to reside on its territory for the purpose of study, even if it has not correctly transposed the directive that provides for that option.
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Hoofdthema: Study § Training
Trefwoorden: abusive application, abusive practice, abusive intention, study
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Deze workshop, gezamenlijk georganiseerd door EMN Luxemburg en het Praag Proces, heeft als doel de huidige stand van zaken in het voorspellen van migratie- en asielstromen te verkennen, bestaande uitdagingen aan te pakken en de toekomst van prognoses in migratiebeheer te onderzoeken. Daarnaast zal de workshop de nieuwste technologische vooruitgangen in migratie, asiel en dat gestuurde samenlevingen tonen en de vooruitzichten voor hun implementatie in nationale en regionale contexten bespreken.
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Hoofdthema: Statistieken
Trefwoorden: prognose, migratiebeheer, asielstroom, voorspellende analyse
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EMN Italië organiseert een nationale conferentie met de nadruk op het aantrekken van internationaal talent en gekwalificeerde arbeidskrachten en het bevorderen van co-ontwikkeling tussen lidstaten en derde landen. Door middel van een uitwisseling van ervaringen en best practices zullen het juridische kader en de uitdagingen op dit gebied worden besproken.
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Hoofdthema: Economische migratie
Trefwoorden: mobiliteit van talenten, gekwalificeerde arbeidskracht
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In a press release from 26 July 2024, Myria, the Federal Migration Centre, calls on the authorities, given the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, to make greater efforts in terms of information provision and administrative and procedural flexibility, both in terms of access to evacuation and the submission and processing of visa applications.
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: short-stay visa, long-stay visa, family reunification, Gaza
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Before 8 October 2024, public bodies or a public or non-public implementing agency or body of a Member State can apply for funding and submit their proposal to support the implementation of the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling and its call to action to strengthen international cooperation on preventing and responding to migrant smuggling.
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Hoofdthema: Smuggling & Trafficking
Trefwoorden: call for proposals, migrant smuggling, global alliance to counter migrant smuggling
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Civil society organisations are invited to apply before 12 September 2024 to contribute to the 9th European Migration Forum (EMF) under the theme "Enhancing the role of civil society in implementing the Pact on Migration and Asylum".
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Hoofdthema: Cross-sectional
Trefwoorden: European Migration Forum, New Pact on Migration and Asylum, civil society
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Op 22 juli 2024 lanceerde de Minister van Justitie officieel de Blue Heart-campagne op het stadhuis van Antwerpen. EMN België was er bij, net als de lokale overheden, de drie gespecialiseerde centra voor slachtoffers van mensenhandel, Myria, de Sociale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst en IOM. Omdat één op de drie slachtoffers van mensenhandel wereldwijd een kind is, focust de wereldwijde campagne dit jaar op versnelde actie om een einde te maken aan kinderhandel.
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Hoofdthema: Mensensmokkel & Mensenhandel
Trefwoorden: mensenhandel, blue heart campaign
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In het 2024 Rule of Law Report, in het landenhoofdstuk over de rechtsstaat in België, beveelt de Europese Commissie aan dat België stappen onderneemt om ervoor te zorgen dat overheidsinstanties definitieve uitspraken van nationale rechtbanken en het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens naleven. Hierbij wordt met name gewezen op vonnissen die de staat verantwoordelijk houden voor het niet bieden van adequate opvang aan asielzoekers.