ECRE Policy Note: The Regulation on asylum and migration management: giving with one hand, taking back with the other
This Policy Note offers ECRE’s assessment and recommendations in relation to the Regulation on asylum and migration management (RAMM) In September 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) presented a New Pact on Migration and Asylum (the Pact). It aims to...
ECRE Policy Note: Alleviating or Exacerbating Crises? The Regulation on Crisis and Force Majeure
This Policy Note offers ECRE’s assessment of risks inherent in the Crisis Regulation and recommendations for a significant redrafting In September 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) presented a New Pact on Migration and Asylum (the Pact). It aims to...
ECRE Comments on the Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management COM (2020) 610 2020/0279 (COD)
This ECRE Comments paper covers issues in the RAMM related to international protection including the concept of “Common Framework” (Part II of the RAMM), the mechanisms for determining responsibility for asylum claims (Part III) and the solidarity mechanisms (Part...
ECRE Comments on the Commission Proposal for a Regulation Addressing Situations of Crisis and Force Majeure in the Field of Migration and Asylum COM (2020) 613
This ECRE Comments Paper covers key observations and recommendations on the Commission proposal for a regulation addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum. The main fundamental rights affected by the current proposal on...
Editorial: Matter of Pact: Speculating on the Fate of the Pact
After a short initial flurry of media coverage and debate, the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum has disappeared from view, with public and political attention focused on COVID, recovery, Brexit, government changes and so on. Most independent commentators,...
Greece: Authorities Deny Problems in Moria 2.0 Amid Record Winter, Disregard Pushbacks as Fake News, and Continue to Violate Safe-guards of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers
With Greece facing a record winter and contrary to first-hand accounts, Secretary General of reception of Asylum Seekers, Manos Logothetis and Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis report no problems in Moria 2.0. Despite mounting and conclusive evidence,...
Frontex Faces Another Investigation by the European Ombudsman and Legal Action for Not Suspending Operations on the Aegean
Following months of controversy, scrutiny and complaints over the conduct of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the European Ombudsman has opened another investigation, this time into access to information concerning the location of agency vessels...
Med: Fight for Justice over Pushback Case amid Continuing Deaths, Rescues, and Pullbacks to Libya
Five Eritreans have filed lawsuit against Italian authorities, a shipping company and a skipper over a pushback to Libya in 2018. Following a shipwreck off Lampedusa, 22 people remain missing at sea, one body has been retrieved, and 25 people have been returned to...