23rd February 2024 | News
The Ukraine visa scheme has been extended but the family reunification scheme has been closed to new applications as local authorities and NGOs issue warnings about risks of homelessness. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has criticised the situation of 61 Sri...
23rd February 2024 | News
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has accused Türkiye of forcefully relocating Syrian refugees to areas under its control in Syria while a new report by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has revealed that many of them suffer gross human rights violations...
23rd February 2024 | News
A man who has only been identified as ‘a migrant’ was electrocuted after he climbed onto a stationary Eurostar train at a station in Paris while 140 people were rescued by French authorities in two days as they tried to cross the Channel in small boats. The Senegalese...
23rd February 2024 | News
The Albanian parliament has voted to approve a deal for the country to house thousands of asylum seekers for Italy, despite protests from both opposition MPs and human rights groups. More than 100 Syrian refugees are stuck in limbo following a spat between Cyprus and...
23rd February 2024 | News
The National Court of Asylum’s (CNDA) decision to grant asylum to a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip due to the ‘violence of exceptional intensity’ that has affected the territory since October 2023 could provide a precedent for future protection. The government...
16th February 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Catherine Woollard The start of the year has seen decisions on the Pact, the reform of EU asylum law, but not much can change now in terms of the content of the reform. The focus needs to shift to implementation and alternatives. Decisions, decisions The recent and...
16th February 2024 | News
There were 6070 pushbacks at the Poland-Belarus border between July 2023 and January 2024. Finland has prolonged its border closure with Russia for another two months. Estonia has warned that it may partially close its border with Russia. Poland has for the first time...
16th February 2024 | News
The EU has agreed to pay Mauritania € 210 million to curb the number of migrants who pass through the country en route to Europe in its latest migration deal with a third country. Journalists from the Spiegel and Lighthouse Reports have published evidence that the EU...
15th February 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Chiara Catelli After many months of complicated negotiations and a failed attempt to find a deal in December, the European Council (EUCO) finally adopted a revision of the EU’s long-term budget (the so-called ‘Multiannual Financial Framework’ (MFF) 2021-2027’) at...