You recently joined ECRE as Policy Officer to work on refugee inclusion. How do you see the main challenges for people of refugee background in Europe? The main problem in my opinion that despite the extreme polarisation of the discourse on refugees, opposing views...
On 29 June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its 2017 World Report chapter on Serbia highlighting key human rights concerns including situation of asylum seekers and refugees. Despite a sharp drop in asylum applicants after the closure of the Western Balkan route the...
On 28 June 2017, the UK Upper Tribunal issued a country guidance decision on Libya establishing that the level of violence in Libya is so high that returning civilians to that country would pose a threat to their life. The tribunal ruled that the violence in Libya has...
1200 asylum-seekers are still sleeping in the streets of Porte de la Chapelle, Northern Paris, according to ECRE member France Terre d’Asile. The asylum-seekers have been waiting to enter the humanitarian center that opened in November 2016, following the...
The European Parliament has adopted its report on the Commission proposal reforming the Blue Card Directive, which regulates the conditions of entry and residence of highly skilled migrants in the EU expanding the scope to include not only refugees and subsidiary...
The Dutch Council for Refugees in partnership with ECRE, the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) and Pro Asyl, have published a series of updates on the situation in the hotspots in Italy and Greece, following its original study,...
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has temporarily suspended the asylum procedure for Afghan nationals as German media reported this week. This step follows the temporary suspension of returns established after the terror attacks close to the German...
The Danish government is threatening to cut funding to the Danish branch of Save the Children in reaction to the Search and Rescue operations (SAR) in the Mediterranean carried out by Save the Children International. It is just the latest attempt to punish civil...
On 23 June 2017 the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum and Migration submitted a new legislative proposal amending the Aliens Act with the aim of transposing the recast Reception Conditions Directive and Asylum Procedures Directive. The law indicates a lowering of the...
Over the past two years, with higher numbers of people arriving on the coasts of Italy and Greece, European media attention suddenly turned to the issue of refugees and migrants. We witnessed a spike in the number of articles, reportages and multimedia material...
