6 May 2016 Jorge Sampaio, Former President of Portugal and Founder of the Global Platform for Syrian Students ECRE interviewed Jorge Sampaio, who served as the President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Sampaio is the founder and Chairman of the Global Platform for...
6 May 2016 On 16 March, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) issued a synthesis report on its fact-finding missions to 11 EU countries, with 16 policy recommendations. The purpose of these visits, conducted between December 2015 and January 2016, was to...
6 May 2016 ECRE member ASGI in collaboration with the Italian organisations APN and NAGA, have highlighted a worrying practice taking place at the police station (“Questura”) in Milan, whereby people asking for international protection who are not deemed in clear need...
6 May 2016 Eurostat released this week its updated figures on unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the EU in 2015. The number, a staggering 88,300, represents a four-fold increase compared to the previous year. Around half of the minors come from Afghanistan, with...
6 May 2016 On Wednesday 4 May, the European Commission tabled legislative proposals to amend the Dublin Regulation, the Eurodac Regulation and the EASO Regulation, as part of a first package of a broad reform of the Common European Asylum System announced last month....
6 May 2016 Refugees are dying every day trying to reach Europe by boat. After the tragic shipwrecks of April 2015, EU leaders convened throughout the year to try and address the situation but no comprehensive solutions to reach Europe safely were adopted. As a result...
6 May 2016 On Wednesday 4 May, the European Commission tabled legislative proposals to amend the Dublin Regulation, the Eurodac Regulation and the EASO Regulation, as part of a first package of a broad reform of the Common European Asylum System announced last month....
29 April 2016 On Wednesday 27 April, only a few weeks after the proposed amendments to the Asylum Act were tabled, the Austrian Parliament approved them with a 98 to 67 majority. Under the new law, the government can declare a state of emergency in the case of a mass...
29 April 2016 In a new report, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) analyses the specificities of irregular travel to Europe undertaken by Egyptian unaccompanied minors. The report is based on a case-study of a boat carrying 132 Egyptian unaccompanied...
28 April 2016 An amended Bill presented by the Swedish government, which contains restrictive changes to its immigration and asylum law, is currently going through Parliament. The proposals are aimed at introducing temporary provisions to reduce asylum regulations ‘to...
