European interior ministers secretly signed a statement to increase financial and material support for effective deportations from the Balkans. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs visited Serbia to strengthen partnership on migration and border management amid ongoing...
On 16 March 2023, the European Commission presented a Recommendation on the mutual recognition of return decisions and expediting returns when implementing the Return Directive. It is the second initiative on return policy this year after the January policy document,...
While there are as yet few official developments, rumours abound about possible progress on the Pact, the package of proposals for reform of EU asylum law, and all the related proposals from 2016 and 2020. The basis for the work of the two co-legislators remains the...
As the reception crisis continues, the government has launched a plan with a main focus on restrictions. Meanwhile, asylum seekers and activists have taken matters into their own hands occupying a building set to house the National Crisis Center. The ongoing reception...
UK and France finalised a joint-multimillion-euro agreement to stop people from crossing the channel. The new UK asylum bill passed to the second reading with the majority of conservative MPs voting in favor despite critique from all sides. Meanwhile, the professional...
Just weeks after 79 lives were lost, another deadly shipwreck in the Mediterranean has sparked renewed critique of EU and member states. New law decree from Italian government is a continuation of the “punitive and repulsive rationale” governing its migration...
This week, ECRE published a Working Paper entitled ‘Assessing legal grounds for protecting Afghan asylum seekers in Europe’ written by Ciaran King, Independent Legal Consultant. The working paper analyses the practice of Belgium, Germany, and Sweden in response to the...
New asylum bill focused on people arriving in “small boats” allowing denial of access to asylum has sparked severe criticism of the government. Separately, fast-tracking plans received a mixed response and trade unions accused the government of complicity in far-right...
Amid mounting reports of systematic pushbacks, violations and robbing of people on the move committed by authorities with impunity and the criminalization of refugees continue. The evidence of systematic pushbacks and abuse by Greek authorities continues to mount. A...
The Med 5 countries of Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Spain and Italy met in Valetta and urged increased EU focus on returns and more relocation from other member states. EU and member states continue to focus on migration cooperation in North Africa amid ongoing violence and...
