21st September 2020 | News
Ahead of the publication of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum on 23 September and the Resettlement Forum on 9 October, we appeal to the EU institutions and member states to urgently revive and increase resettlement efforts. After necessary travel restrictions...
18th September 2020 | News
All across Europe campaigns argue that the devastating fire at the Moria camp should serve as a catalyst to finally – finally – get people off the Greek islands and into humane accommodation, with access to sound asylum procedures. Member States are finally – finally...
18th September 2020 | News
The transfer of people left homeless after the fire in the Moria camp to a temporary tented camp in Kara Tepe in a former military area began on 13 September and around 5000 people have already entered to face harsh conditions. Another 7000 people remain confined...
18th September 2020 | News
Italian Interior Minister promises intensified border controls as arrivals via the Balkan Route to Italy surge. Forty people are quarantined in inhumane conditions in the Italian city Udine, sheltered in buses. Since the beginning of 2020, more than 400 people were...
18th September 2020 | News
Belgium recently withdrew its measures, introduced in January 2020, that unlawfully excluded asylum seekers from material reception conditions. The measures had been criticised by several civil society organisations who initiated a legal action. The withdrawal took...
18th September 2020 | News
The UK government is reportedly ready to compromise European human rights instruments to speed up migrant deportations and to stop an increase in arrivals across the Channel. However, reports reveal limited potential of such a strategy and a recent UK judgement...
18th September 2020 | News
A new stand-off is developing as Maltese authorities refuse to allow 278 survivors aboard the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms to disembark. On 13 September the longest stand-off in recent European maritime history ended, as 27 people rescued in the Maltese...
15th September 2020 | News
The European Union (EU) is currently negotiating the prolongation of the Joint Way Forward (JWF) on migration issues with the government of Afghanistan. The JWF, which is set to expire on 6 October 2020, was signed on the side-lines of the Brussels donor conference in...
14th September 2020 | News
UNHCR and ECRE are organising a roundtable meeting entitled: A new era for refugee protection in Europe? The Pact and beyond: opportunities seized or squandered? to take place on Thursday, 24th September 2020 (9h30 – 13h30) in The Press Club Brussels Europe, Rue...
11th September 2020 | News
The autumn political season in Brussels started where it left off: when will the Pact arrive? How is COVID affecting everything? Then the fire in Moria hit like a tonne of bricks, to remind everyone that the focus must also be on the longer standing humanitarian...
