Atlantic Route and Spain: EU’s Strategic Partner Toughens Prison Sentences of 13 Migrants, Border & Migration Policies Blamed for Loss of Lives on Migratory Routes, Vulnerable Migrants Exposed to “Levels of Exploitation Close to Slavery” in Canary Islands

20th January 2023 | News

Morocco increases the prison sentences of 13 migrants from two years and a half to three years after Melilla massacre. Meanwhile, people continue to take life-threatening journeys to reach Spain despite the death of 11,286 people at the Spanish borders in the last...

ECRE Recommendations: The EU’s Response to Displacement from Ukraine

6th January 2023 | News

ECRE’s new recommendations published on 5 January collates and updates earlier recommendations to the EU and its Member States. It draws on the work of ECRE’s members across Europe which are directly involved in the response, as well as ECRE’s Information Sheet...

Editorial: Three Lessons and Some New Year’s Resolutions: Asylum at the End of an Unpredictable Year  

16th December 2022 | News

In the field of asylum policy, years tend to end much as they started – more people displaced, more hostile policies, more border violations, more bad proposals. Not so 2022. If you had predicted at the start of the year that Europe would respond effectively to a...

EP Study Co-authored by ECRE and Commissioned by the EP LIBE Committee on Use of EU Funding for Asylum and Migration Outside the EU

16th December 2022 | News

This study provides an overview on how EU funding, both from home affairs funds and from the external action budget, have in the past and can currently support asylum and migration priorities outside the EU. It focuses on expenditure during the previous Multiannual...

UK: Renewed Critique of Failed Policies, Doubtful Efforts to Fix “Broken Asylum System” and Clear “Chaotic Backlog”, UK-France Deal “Doomed to Fail” Union Says Amid Deaths on the Channel, Poor Healthcare in Reception Facilities “Adds Trauma on Trauma”

16th December 2022 | News

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) urges the UK to comply with its international obligations to safeguard and advance the rights of people on the move. The conservative party wants to return Albanian...