UK: Latest Home Office Data Reveals Record-breaking Backlog and Increased Spending Amid New Plans to Expand Detention Spaces & Unpractical Promises to Stop the Boats

1st September 2023 | News

Home Office latest data on the UK asylum system shows that the vast majority of asylum applicants are granted protection and the backlog is reaching a new record level amid plans to tag new arrivals due to a lack of detention spaces. The government is planning to...

Greece: Death at Sea and Death on Land as Politicians and Vigilantes Attack People on the Move over Forest Fires

1st September 2023 | News

New deadly tragedies off the Aegean Islands and in the Evros region as far-right politicians and self-proclaimed ‘refugee hunters’ attack refugees and migrants over their alleged responsibility for raging forest fires. The loss of lives continues in Greece. On 28...

Mediterranean: NGOs Calling for End of the Political Harassment Against Search & Rescue Amid Ongoing Deadly Crossings, More Documentations of Pullback Cases by EU-funded Libyan Coastguard as EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Receive Criticism

1st September 2023 | News

56 organisations released a joint statement calling for an end to the obstruction of civil search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean amid ongoing deaths and crossings. EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard continues to tow migrants back to Libya where...

ECRE Policy Paper: Reforming EU Asylum Law: the Final Stage

31st August 2023 | News

ECRE has published a policy paper on the reform of EU asylum law which makes recommendation for the final stage of negotiations. The paper analyses the positions of the two co-legislators – the Council of the EU and the European Parliament – on the legislative...

AIDA Comparative Report: Access to Socio-economic Rights for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection

30th August 2023 | News

ECRE has published a comparative report providing an overview of access to socio-economic rights for temporary protection beneficiaries (TPBs) in 19 EU member states (AT, BE, BG, CY, DE, ES, FR, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, and SI) and 3 non-EU...