19 May 2016 New guidelines issued by the Finnish Immigration Service this week are restricting the requirements for the granting of residence permits to asylum seekers in the country. Under the new amendments to the Aliens Act, residence permits on the basis of...
13 May 2016 A recent report commissioned by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) examines the support that is provided to frontline EU Member States, with a special focus on the implementation of the...
13 May 2016 Human Rights Watch published this week a damning article documenting violence at the Syrian-Turkish border: according to the organisation, in March and April 2016 Turkish border guards violently attempted to stop Syrians from entering the country, beating...
13 May 2016 “We, people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, workers, parents, students, soon-to-be or already European citizens, are joining our voices to all those ashamed of how Europe is treating refugees and migrants,” reads a statement by refugee and migrant...
13 May 2016 The Hungarian Office for Immigration and Nationality has recently issued decisions ordering the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin III Regulation. ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has expressed concern regarding these...
13 May 2016 On Friday 6 May 2016 the Ministry of Interior of Kenya announced its plans to close all refugee camps on its territory and end refugee protection. In its declaration the reasons for the closure were described as “very heavy economic, security and...
13 May 2016 “Does it help that we are making this video? Will it change something?,” asks a single mother from Afghanistan with a 10 year old boy, wondering whether her testimony on the difficulties she is facing as a refugee in Greece will ever lead to a change of...
13 May 2016 A visit of a GUE/NGL (European United Left – Nordic Green Left) parliamentary delegation last week to Turkey revealed that the people returned under the EU-Turkey deal – including children – are not given an opportunity to apply for asylum, are...
12 May 2016 To mark the end of the project No Longer Alone: Advancing Reception Standards for Unaccompanied Children, ECRE and its project partners* are organising a policy roundtable to highlight key challenges and solutions for the reception of unaccompanied minors....
Brussels, 9 May 2016. On the occasion of Europe Day, a day to celebrate peace and unity in Europe, ECRE calls on European leaders to remember and uphold the values that contributed to the creation of the European Union. Renewing the EU’s respect for values will also...
