AIDA 2018 Update: Slovenia*
The updated AIDA Country Report on Slovenia provides the latest developments in the country concerning the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention and content of international protection. Asylum procedure In 2018 no legislative changes were made, however the...AIDA 2018 Update: Ireland*
The updated AIDA Country Report on Ireland tracks the latest developments and challenges faced by the Irish asylum system in the procedure and reception, months after the first-ever transposition of the recast Reception Conditions Directive into domestic law. Asylum...
Administrative Assistant internship
ECRE is offering a position of Administrative Assistant (6 months renewable – convention immersion professionnelle) with the ECRE UNHCR Strategic Partnership Unit starting as soon as possible. The purpose of this position is to assist with all practical and...
Op-ed: How to Design Fair and Efficient Asylum Procedures in Populist Times?
By Dr. Constantin Hruschka, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich As of today, 1 March 2019, the new asylum procedure will be implemented in Switzerland. It offers independent, free legal aid for asylum seekers...
Op-ed: The Rights of Minors – UN Condemns Spain’s Push-Backs and Demands Legal Amendments
By Hanaa Hakiki and Vera Wriedt, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights “Foreigners detected on the territorial border line of Ceuta and Melilla while trying to overcome the border elements to cross irregularly may be rejected in order to prevent their...
EU-ALS Summit Overshadowed by AU Document Thwarting EU Plans for ‘Disembarkation Platforms’
In a leaked African Union (AU) position paper, African States reinforce their unwillingness to host regional disembarkation platforms. The paper that was leaked during the European Union (EU) – Arab League of States (ALS) gathering in Egypt, where many of its...
European Parliament LIBE Committee Vote on EP Report on the Proposed Asylum and Migration Fund
On the 19 February 2019, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (the LIBE Committee) adopted the European Parliament Rapporteur’s report on the European Commission Proposal establishing the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF). The 2021-2027 budget for...
Denmark: ‘Paradigm Shift’ Takes Race to the Bottom to a New Low
The L 140 bill that is presented as a ‘paradigm shift’ was approved by the Danish Parliament on February 21 with support from the conservative liberal governing coalition, the leading opposition party of the Social Democrats and the far-right Danish People’s Party....