Only 3,000 people relocated from Greece and Italy in ten months

15th July 2016 | News

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...

With Greece: Recommendations for refugee protection

13th July 2016 | News

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...

Vacancy: ECRE is recruiting a Legal Officer

8th July 2016 | Vacancies

ECRE is offering a Legal Officer position for 10-months starting in August 2016. The purpose of this position is to enhance capacity of ECRE’s Legal Support and Litigation Team in providing legal and litigation support to ECRE and ELENA members. The post holder will...

NGOs document trends of large-scale detention in France

8th July 2016 | News

The five NGOs working in administrative detention centres in France, ASSFAM, Ordre de Malte, Cimade and ECRE members France terre d’asile and Forum réfugiés-Cosi, have published their 2015 detention report. The report documents a continuing trend of large-scale...