Timeline of governmental attacks against civil society organisations in Hungary shows intensification of crackdown
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...
Germany’s return hyper ‘efficiency’
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...
Mediterranean still the busiest and deadliest gate to Europe
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...
ECRE: European return policies – getting the numbers no matter the cost
Today ECRE published a Policy Note analysing EU return policies and a Case Study on returns to Afghanistan identifying the risks, and the ethical, legal and political implications of a narrow focus on increasing the number of returns in general and in the specific...
Interview: The Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe
Interview with Torsten Moritz, Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) on the report CHANGING THE NARRATIVE: Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe, CCME & World Association for Christian Communication – Europe Region (WACC) Since...AIDA Country Report: Portugal*
The new Country Report on Portugal, the 21st country covered by the Asylum Information Database, provides a detailed account of the country’s legal framework, policy and practice relating to the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and...
Weekly Editorial: EU-Africa Summit: migration – the elephant in the room
The EU-Africa Summit of 28 is imminent. This time around, Summit’s agenda is focused on youth but the elephant in the room will be migration. Migration has to be part of the policies that the EU develops with and towards Africa. It is one of the great global issues of...
Op-ed: Asylum seekers in Croatia in a human rights vacuum
By Tajana Tadić and Marijana Međugorac from the civil initiative ‘Are You Syrious’. From the arbitrary and unlawful practices of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Security and Intelligence agency (SIA), to the violent pushbacks occurring from its...