Weekly Editorial: Any opposition is too much for Orbán
On Tuesday the Hungarian government submitted to Parliament the latest version of its anti-migration, anti-civil society, anti-democratic laws. They have met with widespread international condemnation. But will European leaders and political parties finally respond?...Greece: CPT slams inhuman detention conditions at the border*
Today the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) published preliminary observations of its visit to detention facilities in Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. The Committee confirmed the persisting reality of wide disparities in standards across Greece’s...France: Acceleration of asylum procedure tested in Guiana*
On 23 May 2018, the French government adopted a decree “experimenting certain modalities of processing of asylum applications in Guiana”, aiming to test an acceleration of the asylum procedure in Guiana; one of the main French overseas territories receiving...
Return continues to Afghanistan in crisis
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 285.000 Afghans have returned from Iran over the last five month constituting a 150.000 increase from the same period last year. 12,000 undocumented Afghans have returned or been deported from Pakistan...Spanish authorities rescue hundreds, Ombudsman calls for access to asylum in detention*
The Spanish authorities rescued over 500 people from 15 different boats attempting to cross the Mediterranean this weekend. The Spanish Ombudsman recently urged the authorities to set up a system of immediate registration of asylum applications in Detention Centres...
European Commission adopts first series of legislative programmes in 2021-2027 budget
The European Commission has this week published the first in a series of legislative proposals as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework post 2020. According to the Commission the new proposals aim to harmonise economic and social disparities across the EU, while...
Increase in number of missing migrant children possibly trafficked into UK
A report from the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) highlights the growing number of migrant children who are unaccounted for by authorities in France and the UK, despite having been identified in the Calais camp as particularly...
Policy Officer: EU funding for refugee and migrant inclusion
ECRE and PICUM are seeking to recruit a full-time policy officer to be based in ECRE’s Brussels office. The policy officer will be developing and implementing an advocacy strategy to increase the amount of funding available for refugees and migrants under EU budget...