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On the 12 and 13 January 2016 at the occasion of the Netherlands’ Presidency of the Council of the European Union the EMN Annual Conference titled ‘Promoting the Multidisciplinary Approach in Addressing Migrant Smuggling’ was organised in Amsterdam by the Dutch EMN National Contact Point in cooperation with the European Commission and the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.  

On 4 December 2015, the Belgian EMN National Contact Point organised the EMN National Conference in Brussels on Return of Irregular and Vulnerable Migrants. In the context of the current migratory situation, the conference served as a platform for experts to discuss good practices and challenges related to return with a specific focus on vulnerable migrants.

On 1 March 2016 in Bratislava, the EMN organised a working breakfast on migration terms and actors working the field of migration and international protection in Slovakia. The meeting was specifically aimed at press and communication units of the public administration and other subjects. It was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (MoI SR) including the Police Force Presidium (PFP), Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic (MoLSAF SR), Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic (MoFEA SR) and the European Parliament Information Office in Slovakia.

On 17 December 2015, International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of EMN activities in the Slovak Republic organised a working lunch for its partners in order to inform them about EMN activities and outputs produced on behalf of the Slovak Republic in 2015 as well as about planned EMN activities and study topics for 2016. Among materials available at the meeting were the EMN Glossary, national studies and other EMN outputs.

On 27 November 2015, EMN National Contact Point for Ireland in cooperation with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation organised in Dublin the EMN National Conference entitled Making labour migration work: Identifying labour shortages and attracting migrant workers as part of the solution. The conference focused on comparison of current approaches and formulation of possible new approaches in relation to identifying EU labour market shortages.