EMN Studies and Policy Briefs

The study deals with the political and legislative framework regulating the participation of third-country nationals in EU Member States and Norway´s social security system, their access to various social security benefits and healthcare, and related administrative procedures. It also provides an overview of bilateral agreements that EU Member States have concluded with third countries in the field of social security, and a statistical overview of the number of employed, unemployed, and economically inactive third-country nationals. The publication contains three case studies presenting the way of applying for the respective types of benefits as well as of the administrative procedures and decision-making of state authorities related to the granting of the benefits. 

This focussed study provides an outline of organisation of reception facilities in EU Member States and Norway and provides an overview of the types of facilities, categories of applicants, and competent institutions making decisions on the placement of applicants in particular types of facilities. The study also describes the good practices in the European countries and focuses on the efficiency of facilities from the point of view of costs and the number of received and evaluated applications for international protection.

A study presents a brief overview of the organisation of political, legislative and institutional context of migration and asylum in the EU Member States and Norway. The first version of the study for the Slovak Republic covers the period from establishment of the independent Slovak Republic on 1 January 1993, through the end of 2008. Updated versions of the study for the Slovak Republic cover the following periods: from 1993 till April 2010, from 1993 till July 2012 and from 1993 till the end of July 2014.