25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 On 12 September 2015, tens of thousands of people took part in solidarity marches all over Europe to show their solidarity with refugees coming to Europe and their disagreement with the refugees-related policies of their respective governments....
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 On 23 September 2015, the European Commission sent formal notice to 19 Member States for failure to comply with EU law in the area of migration and asylum. These infringement decisions come as a follow-up to the second implementation package of the...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 Refugees and asylum seekers are routinely subjected to violence, inhuman treatments and abuses by the Macedonian police at the border with Greece and in the Gazi Baba detention centre, documents Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released on Monday...
25th September 2015 | News
25 September 2015 On Tuesday 20 October, ICMC and the Committee of the Regions will hold a one-day SHARE Network Conference in Brussels. The conference aims to build on the momentum of public support and actions for refugees in Europe in the context of the newly...
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,...
