25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 According to information ECRE collected from 14 to 18 September, asylum seekers travelling across the Western Balkans still face significant challenges to register their intention to claim asylum. Many have been sleeping in the open, in inadequate...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on a case concerned three Somali nationals who entered Hungary via Serbia, were arrested by Hungarian border police due to discrepancies about their identities and the legality of their residence...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) has published the report ‘No Child Should be Stateless’, in support of its campaign to end childhood statelessness in Europe. With over 600,000 people still stateless in Europe today, thousands of children...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 On 24 September 2015, ECRE published the third AIDA Legal Briefing, entitled “Safe countries of origin: a safe concept?”. The concept of safe countries of origin has been very controversial ever since it became part of the EU asylum...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 ECRE’s Secretary General, Michael Diedring, spoke on Wednesday 23 September at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) Conference in Valletta, “5 years of EASO and the CEAS; results and perspectives”. The full day general...
18th September 2015 | News
18 September 2015 During the second quarter of 2015 (from April to June 2015), 213,200 people applied for protection for the first time in the European Union, up by 15% compared with the first quarter of 2015 and by 85% compared with the second quarter of 2014,...
18th September 2015 | News
18 September 2015 Between 7 and 11 September, some refugees have been beaten by the police at the borders along the Western Balkans route, and many have spent nights in the open, due to lack of shelters, in problematic hygiene conditions and urgent need of medical...
18th September 2015 | News
18 September 2015 “This is a moment of truth for the European Union. Either it acts, or it will become irrelevant in international affairs”, High Commissioner António Guterres said at a press conference in Brussels on 15 September. Guterres compared the situation now...
18th September 2015 | News
18 September 2015 As Human Rights Watch (HRW) has highlighted, Hungary is facing an influx of migrants and asylum seekers, with nearly 150,000 since the beginning of 2015 and reports of up to 3,000 migrants and asylum seekers crossing the border with Serbia every day...
18th September 2015 | News
18 September 2015 The UN has estimated that some 30,000 refugees are on Greek islands, of which 20,000 reside on Lesvos. According to the authorities in Lesvos, the island receives approximately 2,000 irregular migrants and refugees per day, placing it as an area...
