26th September 2014 | News
Last week, ISIS fighters attacked the Kurdish town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, in northern Syria, causing Kobani’s residents to flee towards the nearby Turkish border. Turkey’s initial response was to close the crossing points with Syria saying that...
26th September 2014 | News
The UK has committed 15 million euro to the strengthening of controls, surveillance and security at the port of Calais. A Joint Declaration from the French Ministry of Interior and UK Home Secretary agree that funding will be given to France for a period of three...
26th September 2014 | News
A new report by the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), of the University of Oxford, City-level responses to migrant families with restricted access to welfare benefits: A European pilot study finds that, in both legislation and practice, access to...
26th September 2014 | News
A report by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR) finds that beneficiaries of international protection in Italy are in practice unable to take up residence in a municipality other than that of their initial residence, even when the support provided in that particular...
26th September 2014 | News
On 19 September 2014, the German Bundesrat (Federal Council) passed a law according to which Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina will be added to the list of safe countries of origin. Applications of asylum seekers from these countries will be considered as...
26th September 2014 | News
The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) of the Council of Europe has issued its first report on Italy showing that victims of human trafficking are being convicted for criminal offences, often linked to irregular migration. The GRETA...
19th September 2014 | News
Germany, France, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom have requested the European Commission to submit a proposal for the implementation of a number of actions, which they consider should be a priority to respond to migration in the Mediterranean. The five Member...
19th September 2014 | News
Everyone was horrified this week to hear about yet another tragedy at sea. Yet, nobody was surprised. Even if this time we have not seen the same outcry from our politicians that followed the death of over 300 people off the coast of Lampedusa almost one year ago,...
19th September 2014 | News
ECRE’s Annual General Conference (AGC) and UNHCR NGO Consultations will be held in Brussels on 15 – 17 October. The conference gathers each year about 100 representatives from the refugee-assisting community in Europe. The AGC is a key moment for the ECRE...
19th September 2014 | News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in the case of M.V. and M.T. v. France that to send a couple back to their country of origin, the Russian Federation, would violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In light of their family...
