Belgium

• Morocco
• Algeria
• Belgium

The Belgian government announced a breakthrough on Wednesday, as hundreds of migrants stopped their hunger strike in Brussels after authorities signalled their willingness to renegotiate the situation. However, it is not clear if they will ultimately gain the right to remain in the country.

• Algeria
• Morocco
• Belgium

Fears continue to grow for the health of hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium who have stepped up a hunger strike aimed at getting the authorities to let them stay. The migrants have been refusing to eat for two months.

• Nepal
• Belgium

Concerns are growing over a hunger strike by hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium's capital. Four men have stitched their lips together in protest against the authorities' refusal to grant them legal status.

• Belgium

The European Union Agency for Asylum is intended to make the bloc's asylum procedures more efficient and uniform.

• Belgium
• Italy

The European Commission has launched an initiative to attract talent and strengthen partnerships on migration with third countries. "Replacing irregular migration with legal pathways should be our strategic objective," Home Affairs European Commissioner Ylva Johansson stressed.

• Belgium
• Germany
• Italy

Eurostat has said that non-EU citizens residing in the bloc had an employment rate of 57.2%, lower than that of national citizens and EU nationals.

• Germany
• France
• Italy

The European Parliament has adopted a report calling for better protection of migrants from human rights violations. A narrow majority voted in favor of the paper, which states that the EU commission and some EU countries overuse informal migrant return agreements.

• Belgium

Belgium authorities have brought 49 mostly Vietnamese migrants to shore after their boat ran into difficulties, according to an official. They were trying to reach the UK and it is thought they set off from France.

• Belgium

Fedasil, the federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers in Belgium, announced on April 24 that it would investigate the Jalhay center for asylum seekers, near Liège. There have been reports of dilapidated premises, threats, and neglect of health care.

• Belgium

The bloc's plans are part of a larger reform package on migration. The strategy includes smoother legal procedures to deport the rejected migrants and the use of visa restrictions to convince countries to take them back.

• Belgium
• Greece
• Spain

More than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant minors have gone missing in Europe in the past three years, an investigation has found. Adriana Homolova from the journalists' collective Lost in Europe says that number is far too high.

• Germany
• Vietnam
• Belgium

A Vietnamese teenager wanted in connection with a people smuggling operation which led to the deaths of 39 migrants en route to England is to be extradited. Ngo Sy Tai allegedly ran a safe house in Belgium that held the migrants.