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EU Asylum and Migration Law: Recent Developments and Renewed Challenges
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum was adopted at last in 2024, with promises of managing and normalising migration for the long term. It provides EU countries with the flexibility to address challenges they face, while maintaining necessary safeguards to protect people in need. This online course, held over two half-days, proposes to revisit the fundamentals of EU migration and asylum law in the light of the recent reforms. Practitioners, lawyers, administrators will become familiar with the relevant concepts and rules in the existing and new instruments, and with the principles and guarantees developed by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
What you will learn
At the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of
- EU legal concepts and policy evolutions related to asylum and migration
- The challenges of balancing fundamental rights protection of individuals with the principle of solidarity among Member States and the policy, legal and jurisprudential responses to these challenges
The course will combine presentations by an expert and interactive discussions of concrete examples from the case law.
This course will equip you with the skills to identify and address:
- Legal and practical challenges in EU migration and asylum law
- The prospects of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Prior to the course, you will be given access to the course materials on our digital learning platform. This includes a short questionnaire, which will help us identify any specific questions you may have so we can consider as many of them as possible during the course.
Preparatory reading and materials will be available on the platform to facilitate joining the course. All course materials will be made available for the participants.
After the event, additional materials and references to relevant literature, documents and websites will be accessible on our learning platform.
Anyone interested in issues of irregular and regular migration, as well as matters of asylum, including legal practitioners, government officials, NGO staff, administrators, and officers from EU institutions and agencies.
Project number: 2551701
Online Course
For this online course we make use of Zoom
Programme Organiser
Ms Elisa Dolci
Tel: +352 691 108 038
e.dolci@eipa.eu
Discounts
EIPA member fee
EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency
Who are the supporting countries?
Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden.
For all other participants, the regular fee applies
Early bird discount
The early bird discount is not cumulative with other discounts or promo codes, except for the EIPA member fee.
Loyalty coupon
As a token of appreciation we offer all our participants a loyalty coupon for one of our future courses. The offer can be shared with colleagues and relevant networks. The coupon will expire one year after its release. This discount is not cumulative with other discounts, except for the EIPA member fee.
Confirmation
Confirmation of registration will be forwarded to participants on receipt of the completed online registration form.
Payment
Prior payment is a condition for participation.
Cancellation policy
For administrative reasons you will be charged € 50 for cancellations received within 7 days before the activity begins. There is no charge for qualified substitute participants.
EIPA reserves the right to cancel the activity up to 1 week before the starting date. In that case, registration fees received will be fully reimbursed.
A few days before the start of the course you will receive the log-in details for accessing the course materials. You can log in here.
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Our experts
Programme
08.45 | Welcome and mutual introduction Dr Catherine Warin, Expert in EU Law and human rights, Luxembourg Bar Association |
09.00 | Introduction to EU migration law and to the (new) Common European Asylum System An overview of the framework on the EU’s migration policy, the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, and the EU’s border management system |
09.45 | Discussion |
10.00 | Break |
10.15 | The EU framework on legal migration A close look at the main EU directives and case law on legal migration – which is essentially focused on labour migration but also entails family reunification. |
11.00 | Discussion |
11.15 | Break |
11.30 | Addressing illegal migration and trafficking in human beings An analysis of EU law on illegal migration, with an emphasis on the current reform proposals on returns and migrant smuggling. |
12.15 | Discussion |
12.30 | End of the first half day |
09.00 | Solidarity between Member States in the new CEAS: managing migration in compliance with fundamental rights? From the “Dublin system” to the Screening Regulation and the Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management |
09.45 | Discussion |
10.00 | Break |
10.15 | The rights of asylum seekers and refugees: reception conditions and procedural guarantees The current Reception Conditions Directive and the new recast Reception Conditions Directive The Asylum Procedures Directive and the new Asylum Procedures Regulation |
11.00 | Discussion |
11.15 | Coffee break |
11.30 | Identifying and protecting refugees: international and temporary protection The Qualification Directive and the new Qualification Regulation The application of the Temporary Protection Directive persons displaced by the Ukrainian war |
12.15 | Discussion |
12.30 | End of the online course |