The 15th edition of the EMN Bulletin provides information on recent developments at EU and national level regarding the Common European Asylum System; unaccompanied minors and vulnerable groups; legal migration and integration; the management of the EU external borders; irregular migration and return; and trafficking in Human Beings.

This edition includes information – inter alia - on:

At EU level:

Various proposals made by the Commission :

• Reform of the Common European Asylum System (Regulations to replace the Asylum Procedures Directive and the Qualifications Directive and second recast of the Reception Conditions Directive).
• Directive on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of highly qualified employment, to address the shortcomings of the Blue Card Directive.
• Creation of an EU Resettlement Framework.
• ….

At national level:

• BE : Refugees no longer granted a permanent residence permit, but a first residence permit valid for 5 years.   
• AT : Amendments to the asylum law, including the possibility to declare a «state of emergency » if there is a risk to public order/ national security and deny entry to asylum seekers.
• FI : Decrease of the national reception capacity for asylum seekers.
• NL : Extension of the possibilities to revoke or refuse residence permits to asylum seekers in case of criminal offences.
• …

More developments and other information in the Bulletin (see PDF above) !