29th November 2019 | News
In a comparative report published today, ECRE analyses the operations of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) involving deployment of experts in the asylum procedures of Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta. The Agency currently has ongoing operations and over 900...
29th November 2019 | News
This week saw the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a reminder that for many women in Europe the greatest threat to their physical security is the man they live with. In France, protestors demanded action and the government scrambled to...
29th November 2019 | News
Over the course of the last week at least 41 people have died in two separate shipwrecks, one off Lampedusa and one between Morocco and Spain. After disembarking a total of 353 people in Italian ports in the beginning of the week, NGO ships rescued another 213 people...
29th November 2019 | News
In a discussion paper for EU member states representatives published by Statewatch, the Finnish presidency of the Council proposed concrete options to enhance the leverage of the EU to bring third countries to cooperate on readmission of their nationals. The punitive...
29th November 2019 | News
On 27 November the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal by the UK Home Office to overturn a landmark ruling from the the Court of Appeal declaring the detention of asylum seekers while their cases were being assessed in the Dublin Procedure unlawful. The case...
29th November 2019 | News
A bill submitted to the Turkish Parliament last week brings about various amendments to the Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) as regards the international protection procedure, qualification, reception conditions, as well as removal procedures. The...
29th November 2019 | News
The ECRE Policy Note Schengen – A club where fundamental rights (do not) matter? – assesses how fundamental rights compliance at the EU’s external border is addressed by the Schengen framework, with the current debate on Croatia’s readiness to join as example....
22nd November 2019 | News
The last few weeks have seen a spate of developments that will have a lasting and probably damaging impact on the EU’s relations with its neighbours to the southeast – and also on the tens of thousands seeking protection who remain in limbo in the region, in many...
