17 July 2015 The recast Reception Conditions Directive was adopted on 26 June 2013 by the European Parliament and the Council as part of the recast instruments forming the Common European Asylum System. It lays down standards for the reception of asylum seekers. The...
13 July 2015 On 7 July, the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) launched the report “10% of refugees from Syria – Europe’s resettlement and other responses in a global perspective”. Given the protracted conflict in Syria and a decreasing protection...
10 July 2015 In 2014, there were over 660,000 applications for international protection in the EU+ (EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland) – the highest number recorded since the beginning of EU-level data collection in 2008. At the end of 2014, more than...
10 July 2015 A newly published draft report by MEP Ska Keller focuses on the proposal of the Commission for a voluntary plan to relocate a total of 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU Member States. According to the draft...
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....
