Strasbourg 20.04.2023 Parliament will decide on Thursday whether to start talks with EU member states on files on asylum and migration management and on long-term resident status. Europa necesita trabajadores y trabajadoras de países extranjeros, de ahí la importancia de la migración regular. Hemos avanzado en la directiva del permiso de trabajo único de la…
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Taiwan-Okinawa ancient migrant route
Taiwan museums and their Japanese colleagues launched a third experiment of human migration route from Taiwan to Okinawa, which they presume existed about 30,000 years ago. (Image above: illustration). The sea voyage in a dugout canoe is one of multiple research projects signed in 2017 between Taiwan’s National Museum of Prehistory and Japan’s National Museum of Nature…
Hungary abandons UN migration agreement
Hungary officially notified the United Nations on Tuesday, July 24, that it is quitting the approval process of the Global Compact for Migration, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. It has become clear that differences between Hungary’s position on migration and the UN’s approach are irreconcilable, Szijjarto told a press conference. “Hungary will maintain its position…
EU foreign ministers to discuss broad agenda
The Foreign Affairs Council on July 16 will start with a discussion on current affairs, allowing ministers to review pressing issues on the international agenda. This will include the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) following the JCPOA Joint Commission meeting on 6 July. "The participants in the #JCPOA reconfirmed their commitment to the full and effective implementation of…
Kurz welcomes plans for refugee centres outside EU
“I am glad that it has come to one #Trendwende in the European #Migrationspolitik. For the first time, there is approval for refugee centres outside the #EU so-called #Anladeplattformen“, Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz said at arrival for the second day of the EU Summit on migration (#EUCO). Arrival and doorstep @sebastiankurz #AT at the European…
V4 declines EU attempts to reach informal deal on migration
Today in Brussels the leaders from 17 member states have attended an informal Summit on Migration, while Hungary’s Prime minister, Viktor Orbán, announced his country and three other Visegrad (V4) Four members would boycott the meeting. With the decision of V4 countries to deny EU their support in migrants relocation policy, the European crisis on the issue…
#EUCO for "pragmatic" migration strategy
EU leaders agreed that their “comprehensive, pragmatic and resolute” migration strategy, which aims to restore control of external borders and to reduce arrivals and the number of deaths at sea, was bringing results and should be consolidated. At the same time they highlighted the need for vigilance on all migration routes and readiness to react to any…
Britons for strict migration policies
Immigration is good for the UK, but the public wishes to see it controlled after Brexit because of the impact it can have, particularly on those on low incomes, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday, September 6. A leaked government document showed Britain is considering measures to restrict immigration for all but the highest-skilled…
EU claims “relocation success”
6.09.2017. Brussels. Today the Commission is presenting four progress reports on actions taken under the European Agenda on Migration to better manage migration and protect the EU’s external borders. The package outlines progress made in the EU’s relocation and resettlement schemes and also reports on the roll-out of the European Border and Coast Guard and the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement, as well…
EU Commission laudits for migrant relocations
The European Commission has adopted its 14th progress report on relocation of asylum seekers within the EU and resettlement of refugees from outside the EU. The considers that that there is ‘good progress’ in the resolution of the situation. “With relocations reaching record levels in June (with over 2,000 relocated from Greece and almost 1,000…
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