Francesca Pierigh | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion Seminar

1st August 2016 | News

How can social innovation and social innovators contribute to the integration of refugees in European societies? ECRE is organising a seminar on the topic of “Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion”, funded by the U.S. Mission to the European Union, and in...

Vacancy: ECRE is recruiting a Legal Assistant

29th July 2016 | Vacancies

ECRE is offering an 11-month legal internship. The purpose of this position is to assist ECRE’s Legal Support and Litigation Team with legal research on specific topics relating to international protection, contributing to ECRE’s AIDA and EDAL databases as well as...

European Commission new package of reforms of the Common European Asylum System

15th July 2016 | News

On 13 July 2016 the European Commission presented its second package to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), containing proposals for a new Recast Reception Directive, a new Qualification Regulation and a new Asylum Procedures Regulation. The Commission...

Negative perceptions of refugees in Europe create climate of fear and violence

15th July 2016 | News

A survey carried out by the U.S. based “fact-tank” Pew Research Centre analysed perception of refugees, minorities and cultural diversity by citizens across 10 EU countries. The results paint a worrisome picture, with the majority of respondents in almost every...

ECRE publishes comments on Proposal for a European Union Agency for Asylum

15th July 2016 | News

Earlier this week ECRE published its comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the proposed successor to the European Asylum Support Office. ECRE’s comments concentrate mainly on the new Agency’s competences...

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