The updated AIDA Country Report on Bulgaria provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2022. It also includes...
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and The Danish Refugee Council’s Diaspora Programme (DRC) are pleased to invite you to a Public online event entitled ‘’ACCESS TO ASYLUM FOR AFGHANS IN EUROPE: BETTER PROTECTION FOR WOMEN?’’ Thursday, 27 April (10h00...
ECRE published this week a Policy Note which analyses the challenges faced by asylum seekers in the EU to access their right to education, from primary-level education to higher and vocational education. It is based on the analysis of the 19 country reports (AT, BE,...
This week, ECRE and PICUM have published a joint policy note on fundamental rights compliance of EU funding supporting actions in the areas of migration, asylum, inclusion, but also border and security, inside the European Union. The current Multiannual Financial...
The Home Secretary visits Rwanda to reaffirm commitment to “innovative partnership” between both countries on the £140m deportation deal amid ongoing legal battles. Braverman’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill faces mounting pressure from within her own ranks....
As the seventh anniversary of the EU-Turkey Agreement is marked the situation for refugees in Turkije continues to worsen. The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has signed an agreement with Greece on the return of irregular migrants amid ongoing...
European interior ministers secretly signed a statement to increase financial and material support for effective deportations from the Balkans. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs visited Serbia to strengthen partnership on migration and border management amid ongoing...
On 16 March 2023, the European Commission presented a Recommendation on the mutual recognition of return decisions and expediting returns when implementing the Return Directive. It is the second initiative on return policy this year after the January policy document,...
While there are as yet few official developments, rumours abound about possible progress on the Pact, the package of proposals for reform of EU asylum law, and all the related proposals from 2016 and 2020. The basis for the work of the two co-legislators remains the...
As the reception crisis continues, the government has launched a plan with a main focus on restrictions. Meanwhile, asylum seekers and activists have taken matters into their own hands occupying a building set to house the National Crisis Center. The ongoing reception...
