Calling for access to the asylum procedure in line with EU law, the European Commission has, for the fifth time since 2015, opened asylum related infringement procedures against Hungary. The measure comes as a reaction to the restrictions of access, with the lodge of...
Unaccompanied minors cannot be housed together with adult asylum seekers in hotels, the High Court has ruled. ‘Removal Window’ ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal. Eviction of refused asylum seekers from state provided housing amid second wave stopped through...
On 27 October, the ECtHR condemned Belgium for the removal of a Sudanese national in spite of a court decision that had ordered the suspension of his removal. The applicant, MA, had entered Belgium unlawfully, passing through Italy, with the goal of reaching the UK....
In the latest issue of its Western Mediterranean Regional Analysis, the NGO hotline Alarm Phone reports on “another turbulent four months of crossings, political developments and daily struggles against the European border system in the Western Med”. The report covers...
Within the past month, Algerian authorities have deported thousands of people to Niger. People, including registered asylum seekers and children, were intercepted in raids across the country and handed over to Nigerien authorities in Agadez, or abandoned in the desert...
Despite or because of the lockdown being re-imposed across Europe, including here in Belgium, ECRE will continue to publish its Weekly Bulletin. Unfortunately, the first wave of COVID19 and subsequent lockdown was used as an excuse by too many European countries to...
Despite restrictions, evictions and deportations, people hoping to cross the Channel are returning to Calais where they face confiscation of tents and belongings. Four people, among them two young children drowned on 27 October, when a boat carrying around 20 people...
The drowning and disappearing at the Mediterranean Sea continued as 13 people died and 40 people went missing within a few days. Search and rescue ships are still blocked in ports and none are operational in the dangerous central Mediterranean Sea. The monitoring...
Lethal shipwrecks between 23-29 October claimed more than 230 deaths. Within just two days more than 500 people were rescued and returned to Mauritania. Over 11,200 people arrived to the Canary Islands in 2020, almost half of them within the past month. The conditions...
Croatia has dismissed allegations of brutal violence by its border police after new testimonies collected by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of Croatian police beating, robbing and sexually abusing people on the move and pushing them back to Bosnia. Ylva Johansson,...
