10 July 2015 In a judgment delivered this week, the European Court of Human Rights held that the conditions of extreme poverty faced by a Serbian family of asylum seekers following their eviction from an accommodation centre in Belgium amounted to degrading treatment,...
10 July 2015 On 6 July 2015, in a move condemned by human rights monitors, the Hungarian Parliament approved more restrictive asylum rules and backed proposals to build a fence along the Serbian border. In a 151/41 vote, lawmakers passed amendments to the Asylum Act....
10 July 2015 UNHCR addressed a number of recommendations to Luxemburg and the Netherlands, the two countries that will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union respectively on 1 July 2015 and 1 January 2016. The UN Refugee Agency urged the two...
10 July 2015 In Europe’s Borderlands published this week, Amnesty International reports on the obstacles and abuses faced by growing numbers of refugees and migrants in Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary. The western Balkans route has become one of the busiest for those...
10 July 2015 On 9 July, The Court of Justice of the EU ruled on the conditions that must be met for a non-EU national to be allowed to join an EU citizen family member, in the EU Directive on Family Reunification. Dutch law required third country nationals to take a...
03 July 2015 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a judgment on 30 June that a Syrian asylum seeker with post-traumatic stress disorder may be removed under the Dublin Regulation from Switzerland to Italy, as he would be able to receive appropriate care there....
03 July 2015 ECRE has expressed its disappointment following the Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 25 June and is particularly concerned about the incapacity of EU leaders to reach an agreement on a mandatory scheme to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers...
03 July 2015 ELENA’s 30th anniversary advanced course on legal avenues for strengthening international protection in Europe will take place on Friday 30 October and Saturday 31 October 2015 in the Royal Hotel Carlton in Bologna, Italy. The course will provide...
03 July 2015 ECRE has published its first AIDA Legal Briefing, focusing on the legality of detaining asylum seekers for the purpose of transfer to the Member State responsible for examining their application under the Dublin III Regulation. The briefing analyses the...
03 July 2015 The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has published a second volume of a multidisciplinary training manual, titled ‘Credibility Assessment in Asylum Procedures’. This publication is in response to concerns that determining authorities reject the majority of...
