NO TIME TO WASTE: NGOS CALL UPON EU INSTITUTIONS AND MEMBER STATES TO EXPAND THE USE OF SAFE AND LEGAL CHANNELS FOR REFUGEES
The increasing number of people in need of international protection perishing on their way to safety is a sinister reminder of the limitations of the current international protection regime. Entitlements to the rights recognised by international and regional...
ECRE Policy Note: Chartering a way to protection – The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – An indispensable instrument in the field of Asylum
The ECRE Policy Note: “Chartering a way to protection – The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – An indispensable instrument in the field of Asylum,” offers an overview of how the EU Charter can be used to further the rights of those in need of protection. The...
ECRE Policy Note: Agent of protection? Shaping the EU Asylum agency
The latest ECRE Policy Note Agent of protection? Shaping the EU Asylum Agency comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on the European Union Agency for Asylum and repealing Regulation (EU) No 439/2010 showing potential shortcomings and offering policy...
Policy Note: Chartering a way to protection – The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – An indispensable instrument in the field of Asylum
ECRE’s overview of how the Charter can be used to further the rights of those in need of protection. Read the note »
Policy Note: Agent of protection? Shaping the EU Asylum agency
ECRE analysis of the potential and risks contained in the proposal to transform EASO into an EU asylum agency. Read the note »
Weekly Editorial: A dark winter in Europe
Developments this winter will make you question everything you thought you knew about Europe. As freezing temperatures have taken hold, French police are reported to be harassing migrants seeking shelter, in Greece and Bulgaria migrants are dying from hypothermia and...
France: NGOs concerned about police conduct towards migrants
NGOs are expressing concerns with the conduct of police officers towards migrants and asylum seekers in the streets of Paris where more than 100 people are still without shelter. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the local association P’tis déj à Flandres report that...
Hungary: to increase detention of asylum-seekers and crack down on NGOs
On 12 January the Hungarian government published a statement by the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár revealing the intent to reinstate alien police detention. These plans were later reiterated by Prime Minister Victor Orbán. The result will be...