The Portuguese Ministry of Internal Administration has announced a bilateral agreement for a pilot relocation of 100 refugees from Greece to Portugal. Following its pilot phase, the bilateral relocation scheme would be extended to cover 1,000 refugees in the course of...
French police have cleared a make- shift camp of 1,800 refugees and migrants in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk. The clearing of the camp was part of an eviction order issued by the Dunkerque court on October 11 at the request of the town hall. The regional prefect’s...
Morocco has said it is to deport 141 migrants who were arrested on Sunday, following an attempt by up to 300 people to enter Spain by crossing the border fence at the Moroccan enclave of Melilla. The attempt resulted in the death of one man who suffered a heart...
The Swedish activist Elin Ersson who in July prevented the deportation by refusing to take her seat in an airplane carrying a rejected Afghan asylum seeker has been indicted for violating the Swedish aviation act. In Afghanistan the already volatile security situation...
The Italian Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s decision to order the removal of hundreds of migrants from the Calabrian village of Riace, recognised internationally as a model example of positive integration, has been met with protests....
The last two weeks have seen EU Member States discuss matters related to asylum and migration in three Council configurations. At the Justice and Home Affairs Council (11/12 October) a report on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) as represented by...
Save the Children have released a new report, detailing the experiences of child refugees returning from Europe to Afghanistan. Despite an extensive body of evidence proving that daily life in Afghanistan is extremely insecure, many Afghan asylum seekers are still...
ECRE and UNHCR published the report ‘Joint Way Forward – A Comprehensive Study of the new Proposals for EU funds on Asylum, Migration and Integration’ that analyses selected new legislative and budgetary proposals published by the European Commission...
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) has decided to ask the European Commission to table a legislative proposal on an EU-wide humanitarian visa programme that would allow people seeking international protection to enter...
A recent report from The Guardian documents increasing barriers to access to Turkish territory for Syrian refugees. People arriving at the border province of Hatay are pressured into signing “voluntary return” documents, advised by authorities that they are either to...
