In the last decades a handful of scientist investigated the topic of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe. Therefore historical background, reasons of migrant self-employment or the impacts for host countries, home countries and at the European level could be identified. Still nowadays, there exist no corporate understanding of the term and the limited statistics do not use common definitions or measurements. The purpose of this article identify migrant self-employment in Europe challenges and identify migrant friendly EU countries in terms of e-services for new business establishment. Consequently existing literature and institutions were taken into consideration, analysis of statistics and countries e-government development were analysed.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.72