fire for the "inhuman" conditions people are forced to endure while staying there. Four police unions have now called for a strike action demanding the controversial center to be closed down.

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) might soon have expanded powers under a draft law presented by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. However, the motion still has to pass through the EU Parliament and needs support from all member states.

Controversy has erupted in Belgium over a measure that authorizes the detention of migrant families with children as they await repatriation. Meanwhile, the government has announced new tougher controls on its trains to identify "passeurs", those who move migrants through Belgium.

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has said that in June asylum applications slightly decreased from May while theirThe objective of this application is to link language-learning difficulties seen in two populations: children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and adults learning a second language (L2). Through the applicant's research on typical language development, she has developed a novel perspective about what makes infants precocious language learners, which she is using to make novel predictions about learning difficulties in childhood SLI and adult L2 learning. The applicant's current work with LouAnn Gerken (Quam, Knight, & Gerken, under review) and other evidence suggests that infants are surprisingly willing to attend to new acoustic dimensions in word learning. She proposes that this open-mindedness might make infants particularly good at learning new linguistic structure (see also Newport, 1991). She has identified two factors that seem to contribute to open-mindedness: slow