Definition(s)
A targeted migration dialogue and a policy process promoting migration partnerships among the countries of the European Union, Schengen Area, Eastern Partnership, Western Balkans, Central Asia, Russia and Türkiye.
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Translations
- BG: Пражки процес
- CS: Pražský proces
- DE: Prager Prozess
- EL: Διαδικασία της Πράγας
- EN: Prague Process
- ES: Proceso de Praga
- ET: Praha protsess
- FI: Prahan prosessi
- FR: Processus de Prague
- GA: Próiseas Phrág
- HU: Prágai Folyamat
- HR: Praški proces
- IT: Processo di Praga
- LT: Prahos procesas
- LV: Prāgas process
- MT: Proċess (Il-) ta’ Praga
- NL: Praag Proces
- PL: Proces Praski
- PT: Processo de Praga
- RO: Procesul Praga / Procesul de la Praga
- SK: Pražský proces
- SL: Praški proces
- SV: Pragprocessen
- NO: Praha-prosessen
- KA: პრაღის პროცესი
- UK: Празький процес
- HY: Պրահյան գործընթաց
Synonym(s)
- Prague Process – Building Migration Partnerships
Related Term(s)
Note(s)
1. The Process originated from the EU financed project “Building Migration Partnerships”, and was initiated during the Czech EU Presidency at the 1st Prague Process Ministerial Conference with the endorsement of the Prague Process Joint Declaration in April 2009.
2. In the Joint Declaration, serving as a common political framework, the participating states agreed to strengthen co-operation in migration management, to explore and develop agreed principles and elements for close migration partnerships between their countries, following a comprehensive, balanced, pragmatic and operational approach, and respecting the rights and human dignity of migrants and their family members, as well as of refugees.
3. The main principles and cooperation areas are set by Joint Declarations which are updated in regular intervals. They include:
• Preventing and fighting irregular migration;
• Readmission, voluntary return and sustainable reintegration;
• Legal migration with a special emphasis on labour migration;
• Integration of legally residing migrants;
• Migration, mobility and development;
• Strengthening capacities in the area of asylum and international protection.
4. All six cooperation areas mirror to a certain extent objectives of the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM), being the overarching framework of the EU external migration and asylum policy. In the context of the GAMM, the Prague Process has been given a priority as a regional dialogue process towards the East.
5. In addition to this dialogue, the Prague Process engages in:
- The Migration Observatory which aims to provide impartial, evidence-based analysis from across the Prague Process region and in line with the six thematic areas of the Prague Process Action Plan.
- The Training Academy which aims to provide tailor-made, targeted, high-quality trainings in line with the six thematic areas
6. For more information see the website of the Prague Process