ECRE has published its Comments on the European Commission proposal for an amendment to the Migration Statistics Regulation, which sets out Member States’ obligations to collect and transmit statistics on international protection, return and residence permits to...
Last week, the Swiss Federal Council adopted the last set of measures towards an overhaul of the country’s asylum procedure, following a referendum approving an acceleration of the procedure in June 2016. The amended Asylum Ordinances (AO) and Return and Expulsion...
The refusal by new Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to allow the Aquarius- a civilian search and rescue vessel operating in the Central Mediterranean by SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)- to dock in an Italian port and safely disembark the...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has overturned a legal precedent that had allowed women fleeing domestic violence to claim asylum in the USA, in a ruling which also minimises the right to asylum for victims of gang violence. The decision, announced on Monday, reversed...
Interview with Ben Salzwedel, from Clean Plate Society Berlin which organises cultural culinary events. What is Clean Plate Society and what was the inspiration for it? The idea came for our Ramadan Food Festival from co-founders Memona and Laila who are half...
