Key topics

• Managing the migration and refugee crisis – the inner dimension: reform of the Dublin system, relocation and resettlement
• Managing the migration and refugee crisis – the outer dimension: the Border Package
• National implementation of the Return Directive: a comparative assessment
• Current issues regarding procedural safeguards: return decisions motivation, translation and linguistic assistance, right to an effective remedy and legal aid
• Protection of vulnerable persons and family reunification
• Asylum seekers and illegally staying migrants: risk of amalgam and indiscriminate use of ‘safe country’ concepts
• Update on readmission schemes: focus on the EU-Turkey agreement
• Recent case law of the CJEU and ECtHR