On Tuesday 22 March MPs in the House of Commons reinstated controversial proposals under the Nationality and Borders Bill – dubbed the ‘Anti Refugee Bill’ by campaigners. As opposed to the EU the UK has continued to restrict access to visas and family reunification...
ECRE published a Policy Note on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EU)2016/399 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (“Schengen Borders Code amendments”). The European Commission presented...
ECRE published a Policy Note on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum. The European Commission presented the proposed Regulation as part of a mini-package of three new...
A group of around 30 people stranded on an islet in the Evros region have finally been rescued after interim measures by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). A compliant over complicity in a pushback case by European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has...
A report from Human Rights Observers reveal continued evictions and destruction of property of migrants in Grande Synthe and Calais. In the first half of March a diplomatic row with France was sparked over denial or delay of entry to the UK for Ukrainian refugees in...
The Atlantic route remains one of the deadliest migratory routes to Europe. The EU envisages the deployment of Frontex in Morocco and Spain resumes deportation flights from the Canaries. While 25,000 people have arrived from Ukraine and around 10,000 are already...
European states are grappling with the reception of more than 3 million people who have fled Ukraine. The Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), in force since 7 March, obliges EU states to offer a one-year (extendable) residence permit and ensuing rights to education,...
The Cypriot children’s rights commissioner is appalled by unhygienic and miserable conditions in the Pournara reception camp. 30 unaccompanied children recently staged a protest outside the centre. President Nicos Anastasiades promised “more humane”...
Between August 2021 and January 2022, more than 41,000 people arrived via the Central Mediterranean making it the busiest maritime route to Europe. Already by 28 February, close to 200 people had lost their lives attempting to cross and the death toll continues to...
The updated AIDA Country Report on the United Kingdom 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. The government...
