After two years of tortuous and time-consuming negotiations, there is no sign that discussions on the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) are going to reach a satisfactory conclusion. The sticking point remains the reform of the Dublin Regulation with...
UNHCR and ECRE are organizing a roundtable meeting entitled: “Protecting refugees and addressing forced displacement in the EU post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)” to take place on Monday, 18th June 2018 (9h30 – 17h00) in The Press Club Brussels...
Representatives of countries along the Balkan route (Greece, Albania, FYROM, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria) committed to closer cooperation and information exchange on migrants arriving on their territory, during a...
This report presents the outcomes of a fact-finding visit to France conducted by ECRE between 23 and 27 April 2018, with a focus on deprivation of liberty and access to asylum at the border. People fleeing persecution and conflict who manage to reach France by air or...
Controversial statements by present Lega and former Lega Nord politician Matteo Salvini is not a new phenomenon. But at his recent visit to Pozzallo in Sicily he was speaking as Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and his remarks about migrants...
Following an intense conflict at the Moria hotspot, on Lesvos, Greece on 25 May 2018, which left at least 70 people injured, a group of nearly 1,000 people, including families with young children, fled the violence and sought protection in other areas of Lesbos. This...
A report by the Jesuit Migrants Service published today documents Spain’s use of immigration detention in 2017, against the backdrop of increasing numbers of arrivals. Spain placed 8,814 persons in Foreigner Detention Centres (Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros,...
The 1 -3 June saw devastating loss of life across all the three major Mediterranean migration routes, making it the deadliest weekend in the region this year. An estimated 125 men, women and children have drowned off the coast of Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain and...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Myanmar Government detailing plans for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. The tripartite...
In the last two weeks, the French authorities have carried out evacuations of three unofficial camps on the streets of Paris, and rounded up almost 2,000 migrants who had been living there. The ‘Millenaire’ camp in the Northeast of the city, the largest of its kind in...
