EU EASTERN BORDERS: Progress in construction of Finland’s costly border fence ― Hungary sues EU court over judgement on asylum rules ― UNHCR urges Lithuania to stop pushbacks ― Over 180 people tunnel into Poland from Belarus

EU EASTERN BORDERS: Progress in construction of Finland’s costly border fence ― Hungary sues EU court over judgement on asylum rules ― UNHCR urges Lithuania to stop pushbacks ― Over 180 people tunnel into Poland from Belarus

18th December 2025 | News

The construction of fencing along Finland’s eastern border is almost complete in Lapland. The Hungarian government has filed a lawsuit against the Court of Justice of the EU over its ruling on the country’s asylum rules. The United Nations Refugee Agency has urged...
BALKAN ROUTE: EU-Western Balkan Summit held in Brussels ― UK invests £10m to fight people smuggling in Western Balkans ― State authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina preparing to take over management of migration reception centres from IOM ― Frontex report blames Bulgarian authorities for minors’ deaths in 2024 ― Three dead after tragedy on Croatia-BiH river border ― New analysis predicts implications of EU Pact on Migration and Asylum for Serbia

BALKAN ROUTE: EU-Western Balkan Summit held in Brussels ― UK invests £10m to fight people smuggling in Western Balkans ― State authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina preparing to take over management of migration reception centres from IOM ― Frontex report blames Bulgarian authorities for minors’ deaths in 2024 ― Three dead after tragedy on Croatia-BiH river border ― New analysis predicts implications of EU Pact on Migration and Asylum for Serbia

18th December 2025 | News

EU and Western Balkan leaders held a high-level summit on 17 December in Brussels. The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has hosted a meeting with her counterparts from the Western Balkans. State authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are preparing to take over...
Interview with Samanta Brahaj and Victoria Salaza Cruz from VOICIFY

Interview with Samanta Brahaj and Victoria Salaza Cruz from VOICIFY

17th December 2025 | News

How would you describe yourselves and your organisation? We are young people with lived migration experience. Too often, we are (only) labelled as Young Refugees, Exiled, Migrants, Asylum Seekers, or Undocumented (YREMASUD). But before anything else, we are human...
ECRE Comments Paper: Qualification Regulation

ECRE Comments Paper: Qualification Regulation

16th December 2025 | News

ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation on standards for the qualification of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection...