13 May 2016 “Does it help that we are making this video? Will it change something?,” asks a single mother from Afghanistan with a 10 year old boy, wondering whether her testimony on the difficulties she is facing as a refugee in Greece will ever lead to a change of...
13 May 2016 A visit of a GUE/NGL (European United Left – Nordic Green Left) parliamentary delegation last week to Turkey revealed that the people returned under the EU-Turkey deal – including children – are not given an opportunity to apply for asylum, are...
12 May 2016 To mark the end of the project No Longer Alone: Advancing Reception Standards for Unaccompanied Children, ECRE and its project partners* are organising a policy roundtable to highlight key challenges and solutions for the reception of unaccompanied minors....
Brussels, 9 May 2016. On the occasion of Europe Day, a day to celebrate peace and unity in Europe, ECRE calls on European leaders to remember and uphold the values that contributed to the creation of the European Union. Renewing the EU’s respect for values will also...
6 May 2016 Jorge Sampaio, Former President of Portugal and Founder of the Global Platform for Syrian Students ECRE interviewed Jorge Sampaio, who served as the President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Sampaio is the founder and Chairman of the Global Platform for...
6 May 2016 On 16 March, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) issued a synthesis report on its fact-finding missions to 11 EU countries, with 16 policy recommendations. The purpose of these visits, conducted between December 2015 and January 2016, was to...
6 May 2016 ECRE member ASGI in collaboration with the Italian organisations APN and NAGA, have highlighted a worrying practice taking place at the police station (“Questura”) in Milan, whereby people asking for international protection who are not deemed in clear need...
6 May 2016 Eurostat released this week its updated figures on unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the EU in 2015. The number, a staggering 88,300, represents a four-fold increase compared to the previous year. Around half of the minors come from Afghanistan, with...
6 May 2016 On Wednesday 4 May, the European Commission tabled legislative proposals to amend the Dublin Regulation, the Eurodac Regulation and the EASO Regulation, as part of a first package of a broad reform of the Common European Asylum System announced last month....
6 May 2016 Refugees are dying every day trying to reach Europe by boat. After the tragic shipwrecks of April 2015, EU leaders convened throughout the year to try and address the situation but no comprehensive solutions to reach Europe safely were adopted. As a result...
