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On 11-12 June 2015, the EMN Small Scale Meeting in Demänová was organised in cooperation with the Bureau of the Border and Alien Police of the Police Force Presidium (P FP) on the topic Implementation of new provisions of the national legislation in the field of regular and irregular migration of third-country nationals to the Slovak Republic. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Bureau of the Border and Alien Police of the P FP, Border and Alien Police directorates from the Slovak regions, Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN activities in the Slovak Republic.

On 30 June 2015 a conference organised by the French EMN National Contact Point (NCP) was held in Paris on Unaccompanied Minors in France and the EU. The conference was attended by a representative of the Migration Office of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic.

On 12 June, the conference of the EMN National Contact Point (NCP) for Norway was held in Oslo entitled Resettlement: Regional Solutions and Humanitarian Assistance. Among speakers of the conference were representatives of Norwegian Refugee Council, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugees Studies Center at the University of Oxford, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), European Commission, Swedish Migration Board and ministries of foreign affairs of Denmark and Norway. The conference was attended by a representative of IOM Bratislava and Migration Office of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic.

More than 60 employees of state and public administration and representatives of academia, non-profit sector, media and foreign embassies took part in the educational seminar entitled Irregular Migration – Borders and Human Rights organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN in the Slovak Republic in Bratislava on 25 – 27 August 2015. The guest speakers shared their knowledge of irregular migration in the world, EU and Slovakia, smuggling and other forms of irregular migration, fight against irregular migration, ways to deal with a situation of irregular migrants and protection of their rights as well as intermingling of forced and irregular migration.

On 26 August 2015, EMN held a discussion evening entitled Europe or Die? on irregular migration and current situation in the Mediterranean at KC Dunaj in Bratislava. The moderated discussion with guests from abroad and questions from the audience were preceded by screening of an episode from the documentary series VICE News – Europe or Die.