10 April 2015 626,000 people applied for asylum in the European Union in 2014, according to the latest Eurostat report. 122,790 were Syrians, accounting for 20% of the total number of asylum applicants in the EU. They are followed by Afghans (41,300 asylum seekers),...
10 April 2015 A report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has documented the death of 160 migrants and refugees in Europe between January 2010 and December 2014. Of them, 60 asylum seekers committed suicide, hours or days before a scheduled return to their...
10 April 2015 In its recommendations to the new Greek government UNHCR has called, amongst others, for the revocation of a domestic Decree allowing the prolongation of detention beyond 18 months in pre-removal detention centres as well as a consistent and timely...
9 April 2015 Asylum seekers in Cyprus are being detained for longer periods than what is prescribed by law, according to a new AIDA report on Cyprus. The Future Worlds Center reports that since the end of 2014, asylum claims of people in detention ought to be...
9 April 2015 The High Administrative Court of Austria has ruled that the detention of asylum seekers in Austria pending removal to another EU Member State under the Dublin framework is currently illegal. Therefore, for the time being, no one in a procedure under the...
03 April 2015 ECRE has published an information note providing guidance to apply the recast Dublin Regulation from the perspective of the fundamental rights of the asylum seekers. The Dublin Regulation determines the Member State responsible for the examination of an...
27 March 2015 Op-Ed by Estrella Galán, Secretary General of CEAR, on the passing through Parliament of the Law on Public Security On October 22, 2014 we woke up to the news that an amendment to the Law on Public Security had been presented by the Popular Party, which...
20 March 2015 The new AIDA report on Poland, written by ECRE member the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, underlines that many Ukrainian citizens had their asylum applications rejected in Poland in 2014. In 2014, asylum applications from Ukrainian citizens reached...
20 March 2015 A report published by the Migration Policy Institute Europe provides evidence that the twin goals of the Dublin system, preventing asylum seekers from applying for international protection in more than one EU country and providing quickly protection to...
20 March 2015 A new AIDA report by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee underlines that judicial review of immigration and asylum detention in Hungary continues to be ineffective, in breach of EU law and with no sign of efforts being made to solve the problem. The...
