Overall developments in asylum and migration in 2013 focus inter alia on:

• further implementing a coherent policy, linking asylum, migration, reception
• controlling incoming and outcoming flows
• discouraging multiple asylum applications
• increasing the number of persons to be resettled
• developing qualitative, flexible and efficient reception facilities
• struggling against misuse of the right to family reunification
• promoting voluntary return
• tackling abuse of voluntary return schemes
• forcibly removing persons posing a threat to public order
• preventing and combatting irregular migration
• adapting anti-trafficking legislation
• better detecting and referring victims of trafficking

Some of these developments and more are presented in the report, including the following sections:

• legal migration and mobility
• international protection including asylum
• unaccompanied minors and other vulnerable groups
• actions addressing trafficking in human beings
• migration and development policy
• irregular migration
• return

Please view the report itself for detailed information.