AIDA Country Report on Slovenia – Update on 2024
The updated AIDA Country Report on Slovenia provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It is accompanied by...
AIDA Country Report on Türkiye – Update on 2024
The updated AIDA Country Report on Türkiye provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It also includes a...
AIDA Country Report on Italy – Update on 2024
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. It is accompanied by an...
ECRE Policy Note: A Gender-sensitive Approach to Combating Human Trafficking and Support Asylum-seeking Survivors in the EU
ECRE has published a policy note which explores how EU asylum and anti-trafficking frameworks can better protect refugee women and girls who are at risk of or have survived human trafficking. Drawing on EU and international legal standards – as well as national-level...
Publication of the proposal for the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
The European Commission (EC) has published part of its plans for the next long-term EU budget (officially called the ‘Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034’). It has proposed to increase the overall MFF to almost €2 trillion and to significantly change the...
UK: ‘Groundbreaking’ agreement with France to reduce irregular Channel crossings ― Government to resume processing of Syrian asylum claims ― NGO report reveals ‘devastating violence’ experienced by children on UK-France border ― Hundreds of asylum-seeking children wrongly classified as adults
The UK and France have agreed a migration deal aimed at reducing the number of people who cross the Channel in small boats. The government has announced that it will resume the processing of Syrian asylum claims. A new NGO report has revealed the violence to which...
MEDITERRANEAN: Rise in arrivals on Crete ― Greek Parliament votes to suspend asylum ― Increasingly hostile discourse about people on the move in Greece ― More deportations from Cyprus ― Italian authorities accused of ignoring boat in distress ― Italy’s top court backs NGO ship detention ― Italian PM and senior ministers facing more scrutiny over release of war crimes suspect ― New Council of Europe report on immigration detention facilities in Malta
There has been a rise in the number of people arriving in Greece irregularly in recent weeks. The Greek Parliament has approved a three-month asylum suspension on arrivals from North Africa. The Racist Violence Recording Network has raised concerns about the...
OP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law
By Minos Mouzourakis The Greek government flouts basic asylum rules – again – by banning people irregularly arriving by boat from North Africa from claiming asylum. An amendment voted on 11 July has imposed a three-month ban on such people from applying for asylum and...