Residents in EU-funded and highly surveilled Closed Controlled Access Centres (CCAC) in the Aegean islands live under regime of incarceration and excessive policing. Authorities continue the use of criminalisation as an intimidation tactic towards organisations and...
France launches military operation Wuambushu in Mayotte to dismantle shanty towns, expel irregular migrants and combat delinquency amid polarised debate with reactions ranging from NGOs’ concerns to calls to murder from an official. The operation shines a light on...
Morocco hailed as an “essential ally” by the Spanish prime minister amid political pushback over too many concessions. Spanish migration cooperation with Morocco has significantly decreased arrivals to the Canary Islands but the cycle of deaths and distress continues...
The updated AIDA Country Report on France provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers, the content of international protection, as well as procedure for and...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Austria provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers, the content of international protection, as well as the procedure for and...
Over the last month, the European Parliament has agreed its positions on another four of the legislative proposals for reform of the Common European Asylum System. Despite some dissent, the plenary approved the positions previously agreed by the LIBE Committee on the...
This ECRE Legal Note discusses the right to suitable accommodation under the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD). Article 13 of the TPD requires Member States to provide temporary protection beneficiaries (TPBs) with suitable accommodation or means to obtain housing....
The “Illegal Migration Bill” passed its third reading at the Commons and will now go to the House of Lords amid widespread critique from experts. In the latest stage of the legal battle over the Rwanda scheme, Court of Appeal was told that Rwanda is an authoritarian...
As more than 3,000 asylum seekers remain without housing in Belgium, activists take over abandoned building to host 95 asylum seekers. Amnesty denounces police violence as tensions worsen in Dutch emergency shelters. ECRE member, Irish Refugee Council “welcomes...
Lithuania passed a law legalising pushbacks despite critique. 43 people have died on the Polish side of the Belarus-Poland border since the beginning of the Humanitarian crisis. Human Rights Watch urged Pope Francis to call out Hungary’s abusive practices towards...
