The European Parliament (EP) elections are taking place 6-9 June 2024. EU citizens in all 27 EU member states (MS) will elect 720 MEPs to represent them in the next mandate (2024-2029). The breakdown of MEPs per EU MS in the next EP will be as follows: Austria: 20...
A Dutch MEP and a Bulgarian NGO have renewed their concerns about migrant pushbacks on the Bulgarian-Turkish border and questioned the use of the EU’s funding to Bulgaria. Two Serbian NGOs have claimed that the Hungarian government’s migration policy has...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Germany provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Slovenia provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Ireland provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have flagged the escalated restriction of free speech in Tunisia. The European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights has claimed that there was no consultation on the EU’s migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia. EU...
New evidence has revealed how Poland’s authorities have continued to push back migrants over its borders. Polish officials have shared details of the “Shield East” border fortification plan: a response to alleged Russian efforts to encourage migrants to cross into...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Spain provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes...
The EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) is investigating two new allegations of migrant pushbacks in the Aegean Sea. The governments of eight EU member states have issued a joint statement on migration in which they have called for the situation in Syria to be...
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are co-organising a two-day in-person training seminar on EU advocacy on 30-31 October 2024 in Brussels. Objectives Provide an...
