A report from the project, Visegrád Countries National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (V4/NIEM) reveals a stagnating number of beneficiaries of international protection (BIPs) in Visegrad 4 countries, and a significant drop in applications in Hungary and Poland...
Interview with Oscar, law student and crew member on the civilian rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, operated by the NGO Sea Watch. You are a currently one of the speed boat drivers on the Sea-Watch 3, which rescued 53 people off the coast off Libya last week and is...
Tragedy continues to unfold across the Mediterranean with another week of drownings, rescue operations and obstruction of disembarkation. According to the Turkish coast guard, 12 people died and 31 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank in the...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) calls on the future Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) to progress on the EU’s asylum reform. On 13 June 2019, UNHCR published key recommendations and protection...
In a new report “Structural Failure: Why Greece’s reception system failed to provide sustainable solutions”, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) and Pro Asyl contend that the high-cost and emergency-oriented approach of Greek authorities in implementing EU funding has...
The use of immigration detention is increasing in Austria, according to information disclosed by the Federal Ministry of Interior in response to two parliamentary questions (3078/J and 3131/J) in May 2019. The Federal Agency for Immigration and Asylum (BFA) took 5,010...
The Interior ministers of the German federal states are considering to expand deportations to Afghanistan and start deportations to Syria for certain groups of people. The conference of interior ministers of the German federal states extended the halt on deportations...
On 14 June authorities in Una Sana Canton began the relocation of migrants and refugees from Bihac to Vucjak. According to the UN Country Team in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) the conditions in Vucjak are posing “significant health and safety risks” to those relocated....
The International Protection Administrative Court (IPAC) officially started operations on 18 June 2019 as the new judicial authority competent for examining asylum appeals in Cyprus. The Court was established by a legislative reform in 2018 and will take over cases...
The Swedish Riskdag adopted yesterday a two-year extension of the temporary law on residence permits. The law, voted in July 2016, had introduced a three-year period of reduced standards for people seeking asylum from 24 November 2015 onwards. The restrictive measures...
