17th December 2015 | News
Brussels, 16 December 2015. Ahead of their meeting on 17 and 18 December, ECRE calls on European leaders to provide new impetus to the formation of a European asylum and migration policy that: (i) fully respects the right to asylum and the principle of...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 With 2015 coming to an end as an unprecedented year in terms of numbers of people fleeing and complexity of displacement worldwide, ECRE and ICMC Europe will launch on 15 December a social media campaign with the aim of highlighting the importance of...
11th December 2015 | Vacancies
11 December 2015 Save the Children is looking for a Senior Advocacy Advisor to be part of the EU Advocacy team based in Brussels, on a fixed term contract of 12 months. The Senior Advocacy Advisor will play a crucial role in Save the Children’s advocacy efforts with...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 During the third quarter of 2015 (July through September), 413,800 people applied for protection in the EU for the first time, an increase of 150% from the same quarter of 2014. The number almost doubled compared with the second quarter of this year,...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 The French asylum system underwent a substantial reform in July 2015, as documented by the updated AIDA report. The reform introduced a “single desk” (guichet unique) where the Prefecture and the French Office on Immigration and Integration (OFII) are...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 The new updated AIDA report on Cyprus details reforms in the asylum system taking effect as of July 2015. A worrying development regarding the asylum procedure is the introduction of an age assessment procedure for unaccompanied minors, based entirely...
