The new political season in Brussels has opened with the political crisis on disembarkation rumbling on for the crisis-weary migration and asylum sector. While enjoying Putin-esque bare-chested holidays, Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini maintained his policy...
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has introduced new rules of procedure which restrict “church asylum”, the temporary sanctuary offered by religious institutions to people facing deportation to protect them from undue hardship. Church asylum...
A recent study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that the UK government has made dramatic cuts to the funding of key community cohesion strategies. This is in spite of repeated rhetoric that puts the burden, and time pressure, of integration...
The Asylum Information Database (AIDA) provides detailed comparative analysis of asylum systems in 23 countries. Through AIDA, ECRE provides up-to-date information on (a) asylum procedures, (b) reception conditions, (c) detention and (d) content of international...
The Austrian government tabled a bill on Monday to remove the possibility for young asylum seekers to take up apprenticeships. Since 2012, persons below the age of 25 who are awaiting a decision on their asylum claim can obtain a work permit for an apprenticeship in...
The situation is tightening for persons crossing the Southern border of Spain (Frontera Sur) from Morocco. This week the police have arrested 10 migrants who crossed the Spanish border fence in July while last week the new Spanish Government expelled 116 persons...
The study Turn the Tide: Refugee Education in Crisis released by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on August 29 reveals that within the last year alone there has been an alarming increase of half a million refugee children that are without access to school, bringing the...
Three nationals of Syria, Germany and Greece, have been arrested in Lesvos, after an investigation by the Greek authorities implicating 30 people in all in a criminal case of facilitating entry of third-country nationals. The three are associated with the organisation...
A vessel containing rescued migrants has been stuck at the port of Catania, without authorisation to disembark, since Tuesday. After 48 hours of docking, prosecutors opened an investigation into the illegal detention of those on board and the European Commission has...
A recently published Policy Paper provides ECRE’s analysis of the proposals launched at the June 2018 European Council and its updated assessment of the CEAS legislative reform, with recommendations on the compromise texts. After two years of discussing the asylum...
