ECRE has published its Comments on the European Commission proposal for an amendment to the Migration Statistics Regulation, which sets out Member States’ obligations to collect and transmit statistics on international protection, return and residence permits to...
Last week, the Swiss Federal Council adopted the last set of measures towards an overhaul of the country’s asylum procedure, following a referendum approving an acceleration of the procedure in June 2016. The amended Asylum Ordinances (AO) and Return and Expulsion...
The refusal by new Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to allow the Aquarius- a civilian search and rescue vessel operating in the Central Mediterranean by SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)- to dock in an Italian port and safely disembark the...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has overturned a legal precedent that had allowed women fleeing domestic violence to claim asylum in the USA, in a ruling which also minimises the right to asylum for victims of gang violence. The decision, announced on Monday, reversed...
Interview with Ben Salzwedel, from Clean Plate Society Berlin which organises cultural culinary events. What is Clean Plate Society and what was the inspiration for it? The idea came for our Ramadan Food Festival from co-founders Memona and Laila who are half...
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...
