By Jon Sebastian Rodriguez Forrest, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, who visited Melilla and Nador with a parliamentary delegation at the end of 2017 The fences encircling the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only...
The current crisis in the Belgian government provoked by the alleged torture of undocumented migrants from Sudan returned from Belgium after being interviewed by a Sudanese government delegation is illustrative of the risks involved when EU and Member States apply a...
The Kurdish activist Cevdet Ayaz was extradited from Serbia to Turkey despite the UN Committee Against Torture request to stall the transfer, reported the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCHR), his legal representation in Serbia. Ayaz had fled Turkey following a...
ECRE has published a Policy Note analysing gaps in the collection and provision of asylum statistics in the EU at a time when the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is debated in an aura of “high politics”. Problems identified include an overly narrow set of...
Following a systematic EU policy of externalization , the overall number of refugees and migrants arriving in Europe decreased in 2017, with Italy and Greece recording the lowest number of arrivals in four years. At the same time Spain and Cyprus reported an increase...
