27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 On 29 November, EU Heads of State and governments will meet with Turkey with the aim of adopting a Joint Action Plan, EU Council President Donald Tusk announced last Wednesday. The meeting follows a series of high level talks between the European...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has released a new handbook that aims to raise awareness and improve the knowledge of the legal standards that protect and promote children’s rights in Europe. Among the range of substantive...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 Temporary legislation is to be introduced in Sweden to restrict the number of people seeking asylum to the ‘EU minimum’. With Sweden having taken the largest number of asylum seekers per capita of all countries in the EU over the last few years, the...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 Since 18 November, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia simultaneously prevented all refugees from entering the country, with the exception of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis. Thousands of refugees were refused access to international protection, in...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Malta breached the human rights of a Somali national, detained for over eight months for immigration purposes. Farhiyo Mahamed Jama arrived in Malta by boat in May 2012 and was detained at the Lyster...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The highest administrative court in France dismissed an appeal by the French Ministry of Interior and commune of Calais, ordering them to take measures to end the inhuman and degrading conditions for inhabitants of the camp at Calais, known as ‘The...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The updated Netherlands AIDA report details how the recast Asylum Procedures and Reception Conditions Directives have been implemented in the country. New developments include the introduction of a formal border procedure to assess asylum applications...
27th November 2015 | News
27 November 2015 The most recent updates on Germany’s asylum system, as documented by the updated AIDA report, consist of several legislative changes in view of the record numbers of asylum seekers this year. Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro have been classified as...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 A report from the European Network on Statelessness and ECRE member aditus Foundation, has outlined the pernicious effects that the widespread use of administrative detention has on stateless persons in Malta. With no statelessness procedures to...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 Civil society organisations in Italy are expressing strong concerns over practices at the ‘hotspots’: return decisions being issued without a proper examination of the individual cases, chaotic and unprecise approaches to the identification of people,...
