An investigation led by Lighthouse Reports has claimed that EU funding was used in operations to ‘dump’ migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in the desert and other remote areas in Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, and that the EU was aware of them. The European...
The Government has proposed new legislation that would allow border guards to push back migrants without processing their asylum applications at the Finland-Russia border despite acknowledging that by doing so it would breach its international human rights...
ECRE has published a comments paper on the Regulation on addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum. The Crisis Regulation creates three special legal regimes for managing the asylum system in three exceptional situations:...
On 16 May, the four political parties that will form the next government published their coalition agreement. The document titled ‘Hope, Courage and Pride’ was agreed between the Party for Freedom (PVV), the Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) the Farmer–Citizen...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Belgium provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
The Council of the EU has given its final approval to the Pact on Migration and Asylum despite strong opposition from a small number of member states, including Poland. Poland has joined a group of member states that has asked the European Commission to propose ‘new...
Higher Administrative Court judges in Münster have upheld a lower court’s 2022 ruling that the AfD can be categorised as a potentially extremist organisation. A new system through which asylum seekers receive financial benefits via debit cards has been criticised by...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Cyprus provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes an annex...
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has travelled to Libya for discussions about strengthening migration co-operation with both of the North African country’s rival administrations. Italy and Finland have presented a joint ‘non-paper’ on ‘countering instrumentalisation of...
A number of EU member states are preparing to send a letter to the European Commission to call for agreements that would enable intercepted migrants to be transferred to third countries before they reach Europe. The EU has signed a ‘migration management’ deal with...
