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News Published: 22 January 2016

EASO’s Management Board elects new Chair and new Executive Director

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On 21th and 22nd January 2016, the EASO Management Board gathered in Malta to discuss EASO work in the framework of the EU Migration agenda and to elect a new Chairman of the Management Board and a new Executive Director. During the meeting, Mag Wolfgang Taucher (AT) was elected as the Chairman of the Management Board while José Carreira (PT) was elected as EASO Executive Director.

The agenda of the MB20 included:

  • a presentation on the implementation of the 2015 EASO Work Programme and 2016 EASO Work Programme.
  • a presentation of the Draft EASO Single Programming Document 2017-2019 
  • an open discussion on the current situation of asylum in the EU.
  • an overview of the situation in Italy and Greece Hotspots, and relocation

 

See Press Release [EN]