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More than half of responding EMN Member Countries have strategies and policies in place to enhance the prospects of displaced persons in non-EU countries of first reception and transit. The objectives range from reducing the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement to the promotion of dignity, self-reliance and human rights of forcibly displaced persons and host communities.

EMN Slovakia hosted a meeting of the European EMN Return Expert Group (REG) on 1 and 2 February 2023 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Representatives of European Union Member States, EU agencies and international organisations informed each other about the return and reintegration of migrants, and discussed activities planned in 2023.

Between 2017 and 2021, many EMN Member and Observer Countries experienced a high degree of volatility in the number of applicants for international protection, which in some countries led to tensions in the reception systems. This EMN inform gathers information that can help policymakers better organise their reception systems.

What measures and systems are in place in the EU Member States and Norway to provide support to unaccompanied minors becoming adults? The new EMN inform investigates the legal transition that unaccompanied minors face as they age out of care systems envisaged to protect children and adolescents deprived of parental care.

According to UNHCR, as of 15 November 2022, more than 7.8 million people have fled Ukraine, arriving primarily in EU neighbouring countries. Two new EMN informs look at how Member States have responded to influx of people in the area of accommodation and housing as well access to social benefits, education, employment, and healthcare in the context of the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) (2001/55/EC).