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Integration through acquisition of citizenship has become an important topic in many EU Member States in recent years, as the number of new migrants arriving in the EU has increased in recent years. The new EMN Synthesis Report published on this topic shows that citizenship is seen by the EU Member States as either the culmination of the integration process or as facilitating the integration process.

The report informs about the most significant changes, developments and activities in the field of migration and international protection in Slovakia in 2010. In the Slovak Republic, the report is a unique publication of its kind which annually maps all areas of migration of third-country nationals in the context of EU policies and legislation.

In the field of asylum, EU legislation requires Member States to harmonise their legislation and practices in line with the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). There are two protection statuses harmonised at European level - refugee status and subsidiary protection, however a variety of national protection statuses exist as well.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Office of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic as members of the National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN) in the Slovak Republic organized a small scale meeting on “Updating the Migration Policy of the Slovak Republic Forseen by 2025”. The meeting took place on 25 February 2020 in Bratislava.