AIDA Country Report on Italy – Update on 2024
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It is accompanied by an...
ECRE Policy Note: A Gender-sensitive Approach to Combating Human Trafficking and Support Asylum-seeking Survivors in the EU
ECRE has published a policy note which explores how EU asylum and anti-trafficking frameworks can better protect refugee women and girls who are at risk of or have survived human trafficking. Drawing on EU and international legal standards – as well as national-level...
Publication of the proposal for the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
The European Commission (EC) has published part of its plans for the next long-term EU budget (officially called the ‘Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034’). It has proposed to increase the overall MFF to almost €2 trillion and to significantly change the...
UK: ‘Groundbreaking’ agreement with France to reduce irregular Channel crossings ― Government to resume processing of Syrian asylum claims ― NGO report reveals ‘devastating violence’ experienced by children on UK-France border ― Hundreds of asylum-seeking children wrongly classified as adults
The UK and France have agreed a migration deal aimed at reducing the number of people who cross the Channel in small boats. The government has announced that it will resume the processing of Syrian asylum claims. A new NGO report has revealed the violence to which...
MEDITERRANEAN: Rise in arrivals on Crete ― Greek Parliament votes to suspend asylum ― Increasingly hostile discourse about people on the move in Greece ― More deportations from Cyprus ― Italian authorities accused of ignoring boat in distress ― Italy’s top court backs NGO ship detention ― Italian PM and senior ministers facing more scrutiny over release of war crimes suspect ― New Council of Europe report on immigration detention facilities in Malta
There has been a rise in the number of people arriving in Greece irregularly in recent weeks. The Greek Parliament has approved a three-month asylum suspension on arrivals from North Africa. The Racist Violence Recording Network has raised concerns about the...
OP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law
By Minos Mouzourakis The Greek government flouts basic asylum rules – again – by banning people irregularly arriving by boat from North Africa from claiming asylum. An amendment voted on 11 July has imposed a three-month ban on such people from applying for asylum and...
ECRE Policy Paper: Creating more “safe” countries and frontloading the Pact
ECRE has published a policy paper on the various amendments to the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR) that have been put forward by the European Commission in 2025. The proposed reforms relate to the creation of an EU-wide list of safe countries of origin (SCO), the...
Appointment of new ECRE Director
Julie Lejeune has been appointed as ECRE Director. She will replace Catherine Woollard who stepped down on 30 June. Julie has been involved in ECRE for some time, most recently as director of ECRE member organisation director of NANSEN – the Belgian Refugee Council....