27th February 2015 | News
27 February 2015 A new AIDA report shows that shortcomings in the asylum system in Austria, and the lack of reception places, lead to serious overcrowding in the initial reception centre, resulting in some asylum seekers having to sleep in sport halls and, at the end...
27th February 2015 | News
27 February 2015 The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, has denounced serious and chronic deficiencies in the French reception system for asylum seekers, which is leaving many asylum seekers, including families, sleeping rough or...
27th February 2015 | News
27 February 2015 The Court of Justice of the European (CJEU) has held that members of the military participating indirectly in a conflict can be granted asylum for desertion. Whilst, past commission of war crimes does not have to occur for protection to be applicable,...
27th February 2015 | News
27 February 2015 A new AIDA update by Informationsverbund Asyl und Migration details legislative changes improving the situation of asylum seekers in the country. Since November 2014, asylum seekers now only have to wait for three months (down from nine) to be able to...
26th February 2015 | News
26 February 2015 The new AIDA update on Malta draws attention to changes emerging in the practice of detaining migrants, with frequent reviews provided for by law since January 2014. In further steps to transpose the EU Returns Directive, the law now requires that...
20th February 2015 | News
20 February 2015 The new AIDA report on asylum procedures, reception and detention in the United Kingdom underlines, among other developments, the judicial developments in the UK regarding the detained fast-track policy. The Court of Appeal held in December 2014 that...
20th February 2015 | News
20 February 2015 On Tuesday 17 February, the Greek government committed to only detaining migrants as an exceptional measure and for no longer than six months. The government also pledged to release vulnerable migrants and to use alternatives to detention for...
20th February 2015 | News
20 February 2015 A new AIDA update on asylum in Ireland highlights, among other new findings, the need for and progress towards a reform of Direct Provision, the reception system in Ireland providing accommodation for asylum seekers and prohibiting asylum seekers from...
20th February 2015 | News
20 February 2015 110,581 migrants were detected crossing EU borders irregularly from July to September 2014, according to a new report published by the EU border agency Frontex. 46% of them were from Syria (37,533) and Eritrea (13,672 people). After Syrians and...
20th February 2015 | News
20 February 2015 A new AIDA report on asylum in the Netherlands shows, among other findings, how the European Court of Human Rights judgement in Tarakhel v. Switzerland is beginning to shape national practice. The report, written by the Dutch Council for Refugees,...
