28th February 2020 | News
Author: Badara Ndiaye, Migrafrique* This working paper assesses the EU’s cooperation with Senegal on migration and finds that a focus on fighting irregular migration and facilitating returns has been paired with an excessively restrictive visa policy towards...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Mohammed Khachani, AMERM: Mohammed V Rabat University* This working paper analyses the priorities and the impact of EU cooperation with Morocco on migration. It finds that as a result of the EU’s focus on the ‘fight against’ irregular migration Morocco has...
28th February 2020 | News
Author: Andrew Songa* This working paper outlines the way in which the EU has elevated migration as a key issue within the EU-AU partnership, which resulted in significant financial support for migration-related projects and policies. It goes on to problematize the...
21st February 2020 | News
ECRE’s study on the implementation of the Dublin Regulation III, has just been published by the Europpean Parliament Research Service which commissioned it. Drawing largely on statistics from the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) database, managed by ECRE and fed by...
21st February 2020 | News
A new round of marches and protests have taken place in the Balkans along EU’s external borders. In Bosnia and Herzegovina 700 people were prevented by police from breaking out of the Miral camp, protesting their conditions as well as abuse by authorities across the...
21st February 2020 | News
At least fourteen people have died trying to cross the Western Mediterranean when their boat capsized on Monday. They were reportedly part of a group of five boats setting off from the Western Sahara with a total of 143 people. After fishermen alerted authorities the...
21st February 2020 | News
The Spanish government is working on a proposal for a reform of asylum law, seen by El Pais, that combines changes required to conform with EU legislation with new measures to speed up asylum procedures. The proposal comes to light in the aftermath of a controversial...
21st February 2020 | News
The Danish government has informed the parties in the Parliament that no forced returns will be carried out to the Syrian capital of Damascus. Despite finding the situation in Damascus safe enough for returns the position of the Danish government is that it does not...
21st February 2020 | News
According to Greek authorities the accelerated asylum procedure reduced the decision process for new arrivals in 2020 to 24 days, yet leaving out people awaiting decisions for up to two years. The government has been forced to halt expropriation of land to host closed...
21st February 2020 | News
The study “Places of Safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s Policy of Outsourcing Responsibility” assesses the legal implications of disembarkation of migrants and refugees in North African countries by EU state and Frontex vessels. The study, commissioned by the EU...
