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...
20 March 2015 The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) will hold the conference “None of Europe’s Children Should be Stateless” in Budapest on 2 and 3 June 2015. The conference will examine the causes and impact of childhood statelessness in Europe and it is an...
18 March 2015 No integration perspectives for persons being granted international protection, refugees being pushed back at the border with Turkey and discrimination against asylum seekers from Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa in detention. This is the picture described...
13 March 2015 Despite its potential, the Greek system of referral of third country nationals to the appropriate procedures (known as ‘first reception’), coupled with a dramatic lack of reception places, results in practice in asylum seekers and migrants, including...
13 March 2015 This week UNHCR has proposed a pilot project for the relocation to different countries across Europe of Syrian refugees who were rescued at sea and disembarked in Greece and Italy. UNHCR proposes that the relocation of recognised refugees from Syria...
