20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 In November 2015, the European Commission published a study on smuggling of migrants, carried out by ECRE, in a consortium with Optimity Advisors and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). The study gives an overview of...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 In a report released this week, Amnesty International analysed the European Union’s approach to the current refugee crisis: instead of focusing on granting access to the territory and giving protection to those qualifying for it, the EU has spent...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 At a conference organised by the International Labour Organisation in Brussels this week, representatives from international organisations, civil society, EU institutions and the private business sector came together to discuss the integration of...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have released a briefing paper calling Europe’s response to the refugee crisis within its borders ‘shamefully inadequate’. With winter approaching, IRC says that as a matter of urgency the EU and its Member...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 On 10 November, the European Commission published the annual progress reports on Macedonia and Serbia. While refugees continue to transit along the Western Balkans route to seek international protection in the EU, asylum seekers have difficulty...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 According to a survey by the Belgrade Centre of Human Rights, released on 13 November, many refugees entering Serbia from Bulgaria, including unaccompanied minors, reported ill-treatment and abuses by the Bulgarian police. Of more than a hundred...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament has published the study ‘Migrants in the Mediterranean: Protecting Human Rights’, which highlights that, up to 16 October, 613,179 persons arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean...
18th November 2015 | News
Confusing #refugees w/ terrorists, morally& legally wrong.Our statement after #Paris #Beirut https://t.co/INcz9pjtJ1 pic.twitter.com/iG13qMKiFg — ECRE (@ecre) November 18, 2015 Brussels, 18 November 2015. ECRE expresses its shock and sorrow over the death of so...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 Following another extraordinary meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 9 November, EU interior ministers agreed on a number of measures to handle the refugee and migration crisis, including measures to overcome the potential lack of...
13th November 2015 | News
13 November 2015 ECRE’s Secretary General, Michael Diedring, will be leaving the organisation in early 2016 to begin his role as the new Director of the European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM). “To my colleagues at the secretariat, this has been a most...
