EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers have voted to adopt three of the four remaining pieces of legislation making up the Common European Asylum System – the recast Asylum Procedures and Reception Conditions directives and the recast Dublin Regulation – at...
Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS) will be presenting its report on the impact of the Dublin Regulation on the fundamental rights of asylum seekers in the EU at the Silken Berlaymont Hotel, Brussels on Tuesday 4 June. The research, based on interviews with 257 asylum...
“We, the Member States, the Commission and European Parliament have not reached our goals of further harmonisation and substantially raising the standard of protection”, Harke Heida, Director of the Migration Policy Department of the Ministry of Security and Justice...
A public seminar organised by ECRE, the Italian Refugee Council (CIR) and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) examined this week the impact and potential of ‘Regional Protection Programmes’ (RPPs). RPPs are designed to enhance the capacity of third countries in regions...
The Meijers Committee has asked the European Parliament to amend the Commission proposal for a Regulation establishing rules for border surveillance in the context of joint operations at sea coordinated by the EU Borders Agency Frontex. The Meijers Committee...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the Returns Directive, which allows for the detention of migrants awaiting return for up to 18 months, does not apply to asylum seekers while their applications are being processed. However, the...
The systematic use of detention of irregular migrants and asylum seekers has come to be viewed as legitimate across the EU, despite EU legislation stipulating that detention only be used as a last resort, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, François...
The reported number of Syrian refugees crossing the border into Jordan has dropped from 2,000 a day to fewer than 10 a day, according to Panos Moumtzis, Syria Regional Refugee Coordinator for the UNHCR. UNHCR representative to Jordan Andrew Harper added that “It is...
The European Union implements border control measures that put the lives of migrants and asylum seekers at risk and fails to guarantees the safety of those fleeing conflict and persecution, Amnesty International said this week as it launched its annual assessment of...
On 15 May, the Belgian government published a Royal Decree establishing its unchanged list of ‘Safe Countries of Origin’ of asylum seekers, which includes Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYROM and India. Asylum seekers originating from...
