Just over one year since the Commission presented its controversial package on the reform of the legal framework of the Common European Asylum System, the European Council has once more discussed the state of play on the legislative process with the aim of providing...
UNHCR’s Global Trends report for 2016 reveals a record number of 65.6 million people forcibly displaced. How does that affect Europe? First it is important to keep the proportions in perspective. The number of first time asylum applicants in Europe was 1.2 million...
On 14 June the Australian government and its contractors settled a class action suit run on behalf of 1,905 refugees and asylum seekers who were held at the Manus Island regional processing centre by offering them 70 million Australian dollars. This way the Australian...
The Commission report published last Tuesday congratulates the progress achieved within the first year of the EU Partnership Framework on Migration. Meanwhile, a number of human rights organizations have raised strong concern. The Commission states that cooperation in...
An AIDA legal briefing published today tracks the expansion of detention policies and practices across Europe. Despite the entry into force of common standards relating to detention such as those prescribed in the recast Reception Conditions Directive, the deprivation...
