Op-ed by Alice Lucas, Programme Manager for Refugee Rights Europe. Despite promises from the French President Macron to get people “off the streets, out of the woods” by the end of 2017 and the continued eviction of makeshift settlements, new research by Refugee...
Algeria has been deporting hundreds of African migrants at a time, in an ongoing crackdown on illegal migration. Algeria, along with other North African countries, refused to sign the protocol on the freedom of movement of people and right of residence attached to the...
The Israeli government’s controversial plan to initiate the forced deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers has been delayed, while hundreds of those affected remain detained in Israeli prisons over the Passover holiday weekend. The delay was announced...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has recently published the actions brought by the European Commission against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for failing to fulfil their obligations under the Council Relocation Decisions (Council Decision (EU)...
At a meeting in Niamey last week European and African interior and foreign affairs ministers and international organisations met to discuss smuggling and trafficking. The meeting is the next step in the initiative for cooperation on security and migration launched at...
After a tense altercation between the Libyan coastguard and the vessel of a Spanish NGO during a rescue operation involving 218 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, the ship concerned has been impounded in a Sicilian port, with the crew under investigation by...
In its judgment in De Capitani v European Parliament (Case T-540/15) the General Court of the European Union finds ‘that no general presumption of non-disclosure can be upheld on the basis of the nature of a legislative procedure’ leaving documents related to trilogue...
By Nina Murray, Research & Policy Coordinator at the European Network on Statelessness. Statelessness is a legal anomaly affecting more than half a million people in Europe – not only recent migrants and refugees, but also people whose families have lived in...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy documents developments in the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection throughout 2017. The year 2017 has been chatacterised by media, political and judicial...
The Stansted 15, fifteen anti-deportation activists who grounded a charter immigration removal flight last year, began their trial on Monday. They have been charged with aggravated trespass and endangering safety at an aerodrome, an unprecedented terrorism related...
