On 7 December 2017, the European Commission published a list containing a number of legal actions against Member States for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The measures cover various sectors and include relevant actions in the field of asylum...
While the grave situation in Libya is well-documented including by the UN Security Council, the atrocities and abuse of migrants and refugees in Libya have sparked strong reactions at the international scene following a CNN report on slave markets in the country....
On Thursday, the European Commission communicated its proposed way forward regarding asylum and migration policies prioritizing the external dimension and introducing significant compromises to ensure a revitalization of the asylum package reform process. Also this...
The French National Assembly debated yesterday a proposal permitting the detention of asylum seekers who can be transferred to another Member State under the Dublin Regulation as soon as they register their asylum application at the Prefecture. The bill had already...
There has been continued exposure and outcry about the treatment of migrants in Libya, and rightly so. Slavery, torture, ongoing sexual violence, including systematic use of male rape. And there are attempts to alleviate the suffering and sort out the situation. But...
The extended process of reforming the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was added an extra layer as the outcome of bilateral discussions was presented to Member State delegations by the Estonian Presidency of the Council on the recast of the Dublin Regulation, the...
By Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Assistant professor, Global Refugee Studies, Aalborg University In 2015, the political meltdown that defined the European response to the global refugee crises, laid bare dilemmas long in the making. Since then, European citizens have...
Over the past years, the dismantling of the Hungarian asylum system carried out by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been part of a wider agenda of eroding human rights including also attacks against civil society organisations in the form of public...
Amid intense political focus on strengthening return efforts on national level, figures from the Return Annex of the Commission’s Progress report on the European Agenda on Migration reveal that Germany has been leading in efficiency at EU level when it comes to...
Reviewing four decades of trans-Mediterranean migration, the Mediterranean route to Europe is still the deadliest in the world. Despite intense political efforts to stop crossings and slight changes in movement patterns, the Mediterranean Sea –mainly the Central...
