Background Information for the LIBE Delegation on Migration and Asylum in Italy – April 2017

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Upon request by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), this paper provides some information on the 2017 situation of asylum and migration in Italy, focusing in particular on the 'hotspots' and on the asylum procedures. The paper describes the applicable legislative framework, as recently amended, as well as its practical application.

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, March 2017: Background Information for the LIBE Delegation on Migration and Asylum in Italy - April 2017 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/583136/IPOL_IDA(2017)583136_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: Italy’s migration crisis is a clear threat to European unity http://www.europeansources.info/record/italys-migration-crisis-is-a-clear-threat-to-european-unity/

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