Annual Policy Report 2018

The Annual Policy Report 2018 provides an overview of migration and asylum-related developments and debates in Austria. The main legislative development was the entering into force of the Act Amending the Aliens Law 2018. The Act implemented the Students and Researchers Directive (2016/801) in national law and led to several amendments mainly in the area of asylum. Furthermore, the topic of migration played a key role in the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2018 and thus also in the country’s media reporting.