Dear readers, 

Later on this year we are expecting a new mandate for the agency to enter into force in the meantime EASO staff are working hard to make sure that the agency is fully operational in its new form right after the legislation comes into force. What will change when EASO becomes the EUAA? Read our newsletter and find questions to your answers. 

We invite you also to read the interview with Deputy Chair of the EASO Management Board, Ms Blanka Timurhan, in which she describes her experience and different roles she had within the agency giving also useful advice to our readers who would like to apply for a job at EASO. 

This issue looks also into how EASO is currently supporting the asylum and reception authorities of Lithuania, Malta, Greece, and Italy as well as EASO’s latest developments within the external dimension of the Common European Asylum System.  

Finally, this issue presents you our latest Publications, focusing on the new report on the security situation in Afghanistan, the Country of Origin Reports on Somalia and last but not least, the new Practical guide on the welfare of asylum and reception staff. Have you ever thought, how often asylum and reception personnel Staff have the same fears and emotions as the residents? Read the article to find out more about this new practical guide. 

These are some of the many activities and events which EASO carried out towards the last three months.

Ready to embark on this reading journey?  
 

We wish you an enjoyable reading!