13 March 2015 Statewatch revealed this week that the European Commission and Member States are discussing “best practices” to ensure that the fingerprints of asylum seekers and irregular migrants are taken and recorded in the Eurodac database. This database enables...
13 March 2015 A new ECRE report provides guidance to Member States and asylum practitioners on how the provisions of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights can be used to ensure a more rights based implementation of the standards contained in the Directive regulating...
12 March 2015 Switzerland has announced it will facilitate the entry, and accord protection, to 3,000 persons who have fled Syria. Over a period of three years, 2,000 resettlement places will be allocated to vulnerable people from Syria and 1,000 humanitarian visas...
6 March 2015 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has called on EU Member States to engage more on search and rescue in the Mediterranean and to provide legal and safe channels for migrants and refugees to reach Europe. Ahead of an inter-agency high-level...
6 March 2015 On 4 March, the European Commission announced plans for a new ‘European Agenda on Migration’. The College of Commissioners identified four main priority areas: “fighting irregular migration and human trafficking more robustly”; “securing Europe’s external...
