The European Commission’s Research Directorate commissioned MPG to use its expertise and networks to mobilise the main research and stakeholder networks on asylum, migration and integration in order to inform current EU policy debates and identify the key gaps.

• Production of 9 synthetic state-of-the-art expert policy briefs covering asylum, integration and migration (June 2018 and June 2019)
• Synthetic Policy Briefs (September 2018 and September 2019)
• Stakeholder consultations in Member States
• Transnational thematic feedback meetings and launch events (December 2018 and December 2019)
• EU Council Presidency workshops (January 2019 and January 2020)

• Final Synthetic Report – Crackdown on NGOs and volunteers helping refugees and other migrants
• Impossibility and hardship of family reunion for beneficiaries of international protection
• Responsibility sharing in asylum policy
• The safe third countries concept in EU asylum policy
• Crackdown on NGOs assisting refugees and other migrants
• Migration-related conditionality in EU external funding
• EU return policy
• Social inclusion of the undocumented migrants
• Sustaining mainstreaming of immigrant integration
• Cities as providers of services to migrant populations
• Integration outcomes of recent sponsorship and humanitarian visa arrivals