Follow the Money II – Report

Follow the Money II – Report

The Asylum, Migration & Integration Fund (AMIF) 2014-20 aims to contribute, via financial assistance, to the effective management of migration flows and to the implementation and development of a common EU approach to asylum and migration. The AMIF reflects...
Op-ed: A Multiple Hazard Area: Refugees and Their Lawyers in Danger

Op-ed: A Multiple Hazard Area: Refugees and Their Lawyers in Danger

By Stavros Papageorgopoulos, Legal Assistant, ECRE [..] 16. Governments shall ensure that lawyers (a) are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference; (b) are able to travel and to consult...
Cameroon Forces Nigerian Refugees back to Violence

Cameroon Forces Nigerian Refugees back to Violence

Since November, more than 80,000 Nigerians have been forcibly displaced  in the north- east of the country, due to an upsurge in the on- going violent clashes between non-state armed groups and the Nigerian military. The situation for those who were forced to flee...
Spain Proposes Increase in Deportations and Detention

Spain Proposes Increase in Deportations and Detention

The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez has announced plans to expel 9,000 irregular migrants in 2019. They also intend to create new foreigner detention centres (CIEs) in the Peninsula. The country’s budget proposal for 2019, still to be approved in April, was...