22 April 2016 The Asylum Information Database (AIDA) has launched a new country report on Spain written by ACCEM. The report details the workings of the Spanish asylum procedure, pending a legislative reform of the Asylum Law aimed at implementing the recast EU...
19 April 2016. This week we mark the tragic anniversary of the deaths of 800 people in the biggest shipwreck yet recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. Last year, nearly 4,000 children, women and men died because the EU let them drown by not providing an alternative route...
15 April 2016 The Odysseus Academic Network of the Université Libre de Bruxelles has officially opened the applications for its 2016 Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy. The Summer School aims at providing participants with a comprehensive...
15 April 2016 A new report by EUROCITIES emphasises the role cities can play in the reception and integration of refugees and explores how cities are adapting their services to ensure newcomers can integrate into the local community. EUROCITIES has collected...
15 April 2016 The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has issued an opinion concerning the European Commission’s proposal to establish an EU common list of safe countries of origin. It considers that this may be an effective tool to process applications for...
15 April 2016 After Denmark and Sweden, it is now Austria’s turn to reduce the space for international protection and to make its environment less and less welcoming for refugees and asylum seekers. Two months after introducing a daily and yearly cap to the number of...
15 April 2016 According to statistics made available to ECRE member, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, since the closure of the Western Balkans route, there has been a sharp increase in asylum claims in Hungary, with 4, 574 claims in March 2016, over ten times the...
15 April 2016 On Sunday 10 April, refugees and migrants, stranded at the closed border crossing between Greece and FYROM in Idomeni, gathered in front of the fence holding signs and placards protesting against the border closure. The protest remained peaceful for a...
15 April 2016 Human Rights Watch has reported on the situation for asylum seekers and migrants on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios, in the wake of the EU-Turkey deal, finding that they are systematically detained in deplorable conditions. Since the deal came into...
8 April 2016 Amid growing civil society unrest, the EU-Turkey Agreement was adopted at the European Council meeting on 18 March 2016. Following its implementation, questions were raised about its compliance with international and EU human rights and refugee law, just...
