Annual General Conference of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) takes place on 27 and 28 June 2022 in Brussels, Belgium (Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels, Belgium). After a year of dramatic developments in the field of...
ECRE is regularly publishing a non-exhaustive information sheet on EU countries’ responses to arrivals of Ukrainian nationals following the 24 February invasion. The information sheet was first published on 3 March 2022, and was most recently updated on 1 April 2022....
The updated AIDA Country Report on Cyprus provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2021. Following the first...
As number of refugees have passed four million and other millions are internally displaced or trapped in Ukraine, aid agencies are challenged and facing criticism and women and children fleeing are at risk of abuse. While the European Commission has rejected mandatory...
A Home Office policy, under which 2,000 mobile phones have been seized from asylum seekers arriving to the UK irregularly, has been decaled unlawful by the High Court. Charities as well as sponsors offering to host Ukrainians under the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme...
Rescue activity on the central Mediterranean route remains high and death toll continues to raise. Germany announced it is stopping the training to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard for its implication in human rights violations. Pope Francis to address the issue of...
The Greek government is welcoming Ukrainian refugees, guaranteeing reception capacity and support, while the situation for asylum seekers and refugees in camps across Greece remain dire and support is lacking. The Greek National Transparency Authority found “no...
The EU’s response to the large-scale arrival of refugees from Ukraine has so far been exemplary and just as well: the displacement dimension of the crisis is intrinsically linked to the security outcomes as ECRE has highlighted from the start. The challenge now will...
In response to requests for information, ECRE has compiled and regularly updated a non-exhaustive document of measures taken by European countries to address the arrival of people fleeing the war in Ukraine (UA) which can be found here. Given the rapidly evolving...
An unprecedented total of more than 10 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine or across its borders since the Russian invasion in just one month and vulnerable groups including children, third country nationals and stateless people are exposed. Authorities...
