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PROGRAMME

Rethinking Returns from the EU: Sustainable Returns and Cooperation with Countries of Origin

CONFERENCE TOPICS AND INTERPRETING

In several panel discussions, speakers from the European Commission, EU agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisation, academia and selected EU and non-EU countries presented their inputs on the following topics:
  • Current migration situation in Europe and the role of the EU return policy amidst of it;
  • Enhancing cooperation with countries of return from the EU perspective;
  • Practical cooperation in achieving sustainable return and reintegration: ensuring an efficient return scheme;
  • Perspectives from third countries on return and reintegration;
  • Approaches to rejected asylum seekers and non-returnable migrants;
  • Understanding migrant’s awareness of their situation and relevance for European policy-making in the field of irregular migration and return.

English and Slovak interpreting was provided during the whole event.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

The final agenda can be downloaded here:
AGENDA

ORGANISERS AND PARTNERS

ORGANISATION OF THE EMN CONFERENCE 2016

The conference was organised within the framework of the European Migration Network (EMN) under the first Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU (www.eu2016.sk). The event was hosted by IOM Bratislava as the coordinator of EMN activities in Slovakia in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic and the European Commission (DG Migration and Home Affairs).

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EUROPEAN MIGRATION NETWORK

The EMN provides up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and international protection to the EU and its Member States to support policymaking. The EMN acitvities are focused on third-country nationals.

The network is composed of National Contact Points for all EU Member States and Norway as well as the European Commission. Coordinator of the EMN National Contact Point for the Slovak Republic is the International Organization for Migration (IOM), other members are the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic and Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.
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International Organization for Migration (IOM) – Office in Slovakia

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