19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 ECRE Member, Refugee Rights Turkey, has published a paper on the barriers refugees in Turkey face accessing their right to an effective legal remedy, due to the complex arrangements for granting power of attorney. In Turkish law, a lawyer must obtain...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 The Commander of the EUNAVFOR MED – Sophia operation hopes to move into Libyan territorial waters ‘as soon as possible’, as stated in his recent six monthly report. He identifies some political and legal challenges that need to be solved, to prevent...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 On 15 February the leaders of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, gathered in Prague in the framework of the Visegrad Four, and called for an alternative plan to stop refugees crossing Greece’s borders with Bulgaria and the former...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 Amnesty International has issued a statement calling on the governments of the UK and France to cooperate to allow refugees and migrants currently living in squalid conditions in camps in northern France, who have family links to the UK, to be swiftly...
17th February 2016 | News
Brussels, 17 February 2016. The ECRE Board is delighted to announce that, after a search process that attracted many strong candidates, Catherine Woollard has been appointed as the alliance’s new Secretary General, starting from 16 February 2016. She takes over from...
