19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 The Commander of the EUNAVFOR MED – Sophia operation hopes to move into Libyan territorial waters ‘as soon as possible’, as stated in his recent six monthly report. He identifies some political and legal challenges that need to be solved, to prevent...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 On 15 February the leaders of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, gathered in Prague in the framework of the Visegrad Four, and called for an alternative plan to stop refugees crossing Greece’s borders with Bulgaria and the former...
19th February 2016 | News
19 February 2016 Amnesty International has issued a statement calling on the governments of the UK and France to cooperate to allow refugees and migrants currently living in squalid conditions in camps in northern France, who have family links to the UK, to be swiftly...
17th February 2016 | News
Brussels, 17 February 2016. The ECRE Board is delighted to announce that, after a search process that attracted many strong candidates, Catherine Woollard has been appointed as the alliance’s new Secretary General, starting from 16 February 2016. She takes over from...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 NATO will provide support to ‘assist with the refugee and migrant crisis’ by deploying three warships in the Aegean Sea to target people-smuggling operations. The announcement followed a request from Germany, Greece and Turkey at a defence...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 From Skala Sykamnias, a tiny, touristy, fishing village on the north shore of the Greek island of Lesvos, you can see the coast of Turkey 6km away. All over the opposite hillside refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and all over the world camp out,...
12th February 2016 | News
5 February 2016 University of Warwick, United Kingdom University of York, United Kingdom SOAS University of London, United Kingdom UEL University of East London, United Kingdom, scholarships for Syrian refugees University of Sussex, United Kingdom, scholarships for...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 Several thousand prisoners have been executed, beaten to death or left to die during Syria’s civil war, in policies that appear to amount to “extermination” under international law, United Nations investigators revealed in a new...
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 The Greek Government intends to introduce a new detention regime in the ‘hotspots’ as part of legislative reforms of the country’s first reception framework. The Greek Parliament aims to fast-track the adoption of the law before the end of this month....
12th February 2016 | News
12 February 2016 Refugees are dying everyday while trying to reach Europe by boat. According to UNHCR, over 400 people lost their lives while undertaking these dangerous journeys since the beginning of the year. However, refugees also loose their lives fleeing by land...
