While Spain emptied its Immigration Detention Centres (centros de internamiento de extranjeros, CIEs) in response to Covid-19, the situation in Spanish enclaves continue to raise concern. The Ombudsman denounced a “hand-over“ by Spanish authorities from January as a...
The updated Country Report on Serbia documents the main developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2019. Asylum procedure: Access to the territory remains a serious...
By Daria Dudley. Consultant on asylum issues and Lawyer specialised in Migration Law, as well as Economic and Administrative Law of Germany. Completing her doctoral degree at the department of law at Free University of Berlin. Aleeke, a refugee from Cameroon, was in...
78 people rescued by a German cargo ship disembark in Italy and go into quarantine while 163 people remain stranded off Malta. The depletion of rescue capacities at the central Mediterranean following the blockage of civilian rescue vessels risks continued loss of...
Portugal is set to receive 500 unaccompanied children from the Greek island camps, 18 are set for relocation to Belgium, and 52 vulnerable people stranded in Greece have been reunited with their families in the UK. MEPs call for the investigation into a fatal shooting...
