ECRE has published a policy paper on the various amendments to the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR) that have been put forward by the European Commission in 2025. The proposed reforms relate to the creation of an EU-wide list of safe countries of origin (SCO), the...
Julie Lejeune has been appointed as ECRE Director. She will replace Catherine Woollard who stepped down on 30 June. Julie has been involved in ECRE for some time, most recently as director of ECRE member organisation director of NANSEN – the Belgian Refugee Council....
The updated AIDA Country Report on Poland provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It is accompanied by...
Austria has deported a Syrian national to Syria for the first time since the start of the civil war in 2011. Germany has announced that it will also begin deporting Syrians with criminal records. A court in Berlin has ruled that the German government must issue visas...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Austria provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It is accompanied by...
