Migrations, Integration and Co-Development in Europe

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Date/time
Date(s) - 01/06/2015 - 31/12/2015
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Locality
Slovakia

Project type

Selected participants


Project about sharing opinions, experiences and information on migrations and asylum seekers policies and issues. The challenge of developing a common EU immigration and asylum policy is a hot political topic in the civil society agenda.There is an urgent need to provide a flexible framework that takes into account European Union countries’ particular situations, in order to coordinate humanitarian assistance to asylum, integrated border management, fighting illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings and inclusion of migrants into the European Society therefore our organization joined this project and organized survey around Slovakia in order to find out opinions of Slovak people as well.

There were various activities held within the projects – several meetings, workshops and online survey.
We are pleased to introduce final recommendations on a common European policy on migration and asylum, summarizing the conclusions of a participatory project that involved 16 civil society organizations from 15 European countries and local communities from Italy, Cyprus, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria.

The project, funded with the support of the “Europe for Citizens” programme, has created an intercultural platform for dialogue and lively cross-border debate among European citizens on policies related to migration and asylum in Europe. According to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, IOM, persecution, wars, conflicts and extreme poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015. As stated by the European Commission, the EU’s external borders have increasingly been the scene of human tragedies to which the EU, together with its Member States, must take immediate action through a shared and more coordinated approach in accordance with the fundamental values at the heart of the European Union and international laws.

The first chapter briefly presents the project, its objectives, activities and the international partnership. The second chapter presents the state of play on the implementation of the priority actions under the European Agenda on Migration. The third chapter include the main findings from the online survey that has been launched within the project. The fourth chapter describes the recommendation for the development of a common EU Policy in the areas of asylum and migration that have been developed by the consortium. The fourth chapter reviews the general information on the rules and conditions governing the European Citizens’ Initiative, as a possible follow up of the project.

The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views of all partner organizations and do not intend to be exhaustive in their treatments of the subject nor on the specific topics addressed in the current European Agenda on Migration.

The whole publication is available HERE.