UK: Latest Home Office Data Reveals Record-breaking Backlog and Increased Spending Amid New Plans to Expand Detention Spaces & Unpractical Promises to Stop the Boats
Home Office latest data on the UK asylum system shows that the vast majority of asylum applicants are granted protection and the backlog is reaching a new record level amid plans to tag new arrivals due to a lack of detention spaces. The government is planning to...
Greece: Death at Sea and Death on Land as Politicians and Vigilantes Attack People on the Move over Forest Fires
New deadly tragedies off the Aegean Islands and in the Evros region as far-right politicians and self-proclaimed ‘refugee hunters’ attack refugees and migrants over their alleged responsibility for raging forest fires. The loss of lives continues in Greece. On 28...
Mediterranean: NGOs Calling for End of the Political Harassment Against Search & Rescue Amid Ongoing Deadly Crossings, More Documentations of Pullback Cases by EU-funded Libyan Coastguard as EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Receive Criticism
56 organisations released a joint statement calling for an end to the obstruction of civil search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean amid ongoing deaths and crossings. EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard continues to tow migrants back to Libya where...
ECRE Policy Paper: Reforming EU Asylum Law: the Final Stage
ECRE has published a policy paper on the reform of EU asylum law which makes recommendation for the final stage of negotiations. The paper analyses the positions of the two co-legislators – the Council of the EU and the European Parliament – on the legislative...
AIDA Comparative Report: Access to Socio-economic Rights for Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection
ECRE has published a comparative report providing an overview of access to socio-economic rights for temporary protection beneficiaries (TPBs) in 19 EU member states (AT, BE, BG, CY, DE, ES, FR, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, and SI) and 3 non-EU...
ECRE & UNHCR Roundtable: What comes after? Transition out of the EU asylum reforms and the TPD
7 September 2023, 09h00 to 13h30 Press Club Brussels Europe, Rue Froissart 95, Brussels European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) are organizing a policy roundtable entitled “What comes after? Transition out...
Vacancy: Legal Assistant
ECRE is offering a 6-month legal internship with the Legal Support and Litigation Team: October 2023 – March 2024. The purpose of this position is to assist ECRE’s Legal Support and Litigation Team with legal training, legal research on specific topics relating to...
Advanced ELENA Course 2023 on International Protection in Europe – Registration closed. Fully booked!
The 2023 Advanced ELENA Course on International protection in Europe will take place on Friday 10 November and Saturday 11 November 2023. The Course will be held at the H10 Marina Barcelona Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Participants will have the opportunity to learn...