Each year, over 100 representatives from the refugee-assisting community in Europe gather for the ECRE AGC. It is a key moment for the ECRE network as it provides the Secretariat with their general direction for the coming year and allows members to guide ECRE’s...
On 13 July 2016 the European Commission presented its second package to reform the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), containing proposals for a new Recast Reception Directive, a new Qualification Regulation and a new Asylum Procedures Regulation. The Commission...
A survey carried out by the U.S. based “fact-tank” Pew Research Centre analysed perception of refugees, minorities and cultural diversity by citizens across 10 EU countries. The results paint a worrisome picture, with the majority of respondents in almost every...
Earlier this week ECRE published its comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the proposed successor to the European Asylum Support Office. ECRE’s comments concentrate mainly on the new Agency’s competences...
On 12 July 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against France in the cases of A.B. and Others v France, R.M. and M.M. v France, A.M. and Others v France, R.K. v France. The cases concerned the issue of administrative detention of children who are...
ECRE published comments this week on the European Commission’s proposal to recast the Eurodac Regulation, which governs the establishment and operation of a database containing fingerprints of asylum seekers and irregular migrants. The comments raise a number of...
ECRE and the AIRE Centre released this week a report on procedural challenges and recommendations for effective and sustainable support to the Greek asylum system. The report, which follows a field visit to the country between 28 May and 6 June, emphasises the need...
The European Commission’s Fifth Report on Relocation and Resettlement published on 13 July finds that the relocation system has many deficiencies, including a lack of relocations generally, lengthy response times and hardly any relocations of unaccompanied...
ECRE has today published comments on the European Commission’s proposal to recast the Eurodac Regulation, which governs the establishment and operation of a database containing fingerprints of asylum seekers and irregular migrants. ECRE raises concerns over the...
The AIRE Centre & ECRE Report Publication Brussels/London, 13 July 2016. More than 200,000 people have fled conflict and persecution to seek protection in Europe, so far this year. 70% of these people have landed in Greece and most remain stranded. Though the...
