13 July 2015 On 7 July, the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) launched the report “10% of refugees from Syria – Europe’s resettlement and other responses in a global perspective”. Given the protracted conflict in Syria and a decreasing protection...
10 July 2015 In 2014, there were over 660,000 applications for international protection in the EU+ (EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland) – the highest number recorded since the beginning of EU-level data collection in 2008. At the end of 2014, more than...
10 July 2015 A newly published draft report by MEP Ska Keller focuses on the proposal of the Commission for a voluntary plan to relocate a total of 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU Member States. According to the draft...
10 July 2015 In a judgment delivered this week, the European Court of Human Rights held that the conditions of extreme poverty faced by a Serbian family of asylum seekers following their eviction from an accommodation centre in Belgium amounted to degrading treatment,...
10 July 2015 On 6 July 2015, in a move condemned by human rights monitors, the Hungarian Parliament approved more restrictive asylum rules and backed proposals to build a fence along the Serbian border. In a 151/41 vote, lawmakers passed amendments to the Asylum Act....
