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Estonia |
2020 |
Policy |
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Content of protection |
The Ministry of Cultural Affairs published guidelines for local governments on integration services. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Ireland |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The National Integration Fund 2020 was launched, with EUR 2.2 million total funding for a 3-year period. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Poland |
2021 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
Two pilot integration centres were launched in the voivodeships of Opolskie and Wielkopolskie, as the second phase of the AMIF-funded project “Building Structures for the Integration of Foreigners in Poland.” Their tasks include information provision, Polish language courses, orientation, and intercultural, legal and psychological counselling. |
EUAA Asylum Report 2022 |
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Italy |
2020 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
Labour market access was granted to persons under humanitarian protection for medical reasons or due to natural disasters. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Slovakia |
2022 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
A draft amendment to the Asylum Act and other related acts was adopted and put to public consultation, defining and regulating the initial integration of beneficiaries of international protection. The amendments are expected to enter into force in June 2022. |
EUAA Asylum Report 2023 |
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Greece |
2022 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
A Ministerial Decision provided that the prescription of medicines, therapeutic operations and diagnostic examinations for patients without health insurance (many of them beneficiaries of international protection) is possible only by doctors of public hospitals and primary health care structures, not private doctors. |
EUAA Asylum Report 2023 |
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Sweden |
2019 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The government provided funding to increase the length of civic orientation from 60 to 100 hours. |
EASO Asylum Report 2020 |
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Germany |
2019 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
Beneficiaries of international protection are in principle obliged to take up residence and are entitled to integration services in the federal state where their asylum procedure was conducted. The foreigners’ authorities of the federal states are obliged to bear the integration costs for three years. |
DE LEG 05 2019 |
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Finland |
2021 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
Finland opened consultations on proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act (359/2003) and the Government Decree on Citizenship (293/2013). |
EUAA Asylum Report 2022 |
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Sweden |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Swedish Migration Agency published a legal position on the examination of the right to permanent residence permit under the Temporary Act for beneficiaries of international protection who are able to financially maintain themselves. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Denmark |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Integration Action Plan 2020 was launched in December 2020, presenting the most important initiatives from 2020 and highlighting some of the future priorities. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Luxembourg |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Ministry of Education, Childhood and Youth published a guide addressed to professionals working with newly-arrived foreign students, with a specific section on minors who are applicants for international protection. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Malta |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
Criteria for the Specific Residence Authorisation (SRA) policy was modified. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Switzerland |
2021 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
Switzerland launched a pilot programme for the employment integration of refugees and persons with temporary admission and concluded subsidy contracts with 14 cantons. |
EUAA Asylum Report 2022 |
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Finland |
2022 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
Minors who have received international protection became exempted from the requirement of having sufficient financial resources for family reunification. |
EUAA Asylum Report 2023 |
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Norway |
2020 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
The new Integration Act was adopted in Norway and entered into force in January 2021. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Malta |
2020 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
The International Protection Act set in law the grounds and procedures for granting, excluding or revoking Temporary Humanitarian Status. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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France |
2019 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Prime Minister evaluated the results of amendments introduced in September 2018 and put forward several major guidelines shaping the French migration policy, including improving integration policies and the reception of applicants for international protection. |
EASO Asylum Report 2020 |
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Netherlands |
2019 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
Changes in the procedure to grant a residence permit for persons in a distressing situation were implemented (among others) with the abolishment of the discretionary power of the Minister for Migration and by mandating the Managing Director of the IND to consider ex officio within the first assessment of the application whether a distressing situation exists. |
EASO Asylum Report 2020 |
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Norway |
2019 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs introduced a proposal to amend the Social Services Act, which would make financial assistance for third country nationals conditional on being enrolled in language training. |
NO LEG 02 2019 |
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Austria |
2019 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
Withdrawal procedures remained a priority for the BFA. |
EASO Asylum Report 2020 |
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France |
2019 |
Legislative |
|
Content of protection |
Instruction was provided to accelerate the re-housing of beneficiaries of international protection. |
FR LEG 15 2019 |
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Romania |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Ministry of the Interior organised a?public debate on the draft Government Decision for approval of the National Strategy on Immigration for 2020-2023. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Sweden |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The Swedish Migration Agency provided clarification on the application of the economic requirement for family reunification, explaining in which cases beneficiaries of international protection and children are exempted from these rules. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |
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Cyprus |
2020 |
Policy |
|
Content of protection |
The National Plan on the Integration of Migrants of the Republic of Cyprus was released for public consultation at the end of 2020. |
EASO Asylum Report 2021 |