20th September 2019 | News
On 16 September 2019, the Tribunal of Rome admitted the criminal trial against two officials of the Italian Coast Guard for the death of 268 people. That was the death toll caused by a shipwreck of a vessel that had set out from Libya the previous night in the...
20th September 2019 | News
On September 17, 94 Namibian refugees were deported from Botswana. A total of 852 Namibian nationals who fled to Botswana in 1999 have refused to voluntarily repatriate and are set to be forcibly returned. The more than 800 refugees set to be forcibly returned after...
13th September 2019 | News
The incoming President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has announced her proposed team of Commissioners to make up the College for the next five years, along with the “mission” she bestows on each of our aspiring heroes, ready to save Europe. A furore...
13th September 2019 | News
Despite the change of government in Italy the stand-offs on the Med continue. With the Ocean Viking awaiting a safe port for disembarkation, there are no operational civilian rescue vessels in the Central Mediterranean. After 11 days at sea, Malta allowed the rescue...
13th September 2019 | News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “open the gates” to Europe for Syrian refugees, unless a safe zone is established in Northern Syria. He also complained over disproportionate spending and insufficient support from Europe to Turkey. The German...
13th September 2019 | News
On 6 September 2019, the Hungarian Government announced it would extend the “state of crisis due to mass migration” until 7 March 2020 to protect the country’s security and borders. To justify this extension, the Government referred to the 7,000 irregular border...
13th September 2019 | News
As EU-wide figures on first instance decisions on asylum applications during the first half of 2019 are expected to be made available soon by Eurostat, national statistics on first instance decisions from selected countries covered by AIDA, managed by ECRE, illustrate...
13th September 2019 | News
The German government’s commissioner for integration, Annette Widmann-Mauz (CDU), announced that the integration of refugees into the German labour market over the last four years was more successful than predicted by experts. However, only 13% employed are female and...
13th September 2019 | News
On 10 September 2019, UNHCR announced the launch of a transit mechanism for evacuating refugees and migrants stuck in detention centres in Libya to Rwanda. The evacuation programme is the outcome of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the UN Agency, the...
13th September 2019 | News
The Trump administration can start implementing a ‘safe-third-country’ policy that denies asylum requests to people who have travelled through another country, such as Mexico, without seeking protection. By a vote of 7-2, the justices said the administration can...
