17th December 2021 | News
On 16 December Belgium signed an operational plan with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) for support in the form of “reception assets and equipment, personnel and technical expertise” to assist Belgian asylum authorities in dealing with the ongoing reception...
17th December 2021 | News
The Greek government again changes its messaging on an independent border mechanism, now promising the Commission that it is underway. The Ombudsman calls for a re-examination of the rejection of the registration of Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), a decision that has...
17th December 2021 | News
The Nationality and Borders Bill has passed in the House of Commons, where none of the amendments proposed to safeguard human rights were adopted. A three-year government review of the right to work for asylum seekers has concluded that the work ban policy should be...
17th December 2021 | News
The former Danish Minister for Immigration and Integration has been sentenced to 60 days imprisonment over the illegal separation of asylum couples. Amnesty International has handed over almost 100,000 signatures from Danes urging the current immigration minister to...
17th December 2021 | News
Hungary’s Constitutional Court has ruled on a challenge aimed at determining whether the country’s domestic law takes precedence over EU law. While the judgment avoided an explicit general claim that Hungarian law was supreme, the Orban government insists it confirms...
17th December 2021 | News
The situation at the border with Belarus remains deadly for people on the move, with 21 lives recorded as being lost: the actual number is likely much higher. Syrians are calling on Minsk to offer them protection, leave to remain or resettlement, saying they face...
17th December 2021 | News
As controls, fencing and violence increase across the Balkan region – where thousands of pushbacks were recorded between July and November – more people on the move are travelling through Albania and Kosovo. Amid mounting evidence of human rights...
16th December 2021 | News
This working paper is a comparative analysis of the EU Member States’ allocations of the financial resources, mix of grants and loans, they receive from the European Commission to support the COVID-19 recovery (via the so-called Next Generation EU). While the European...
14th December 2021 | News
ECRE published its Comments on the European Commission Proposal for a Council Decision on provisional emergency measures for the benefit of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. ECRE does not support the measures proposed, which will have an adverse effect on the right to...
10th December 2021 | News
The Irish government has announced a scheme that will provide a pathway to legal status for people who have been awaiting an asylum decision for at least two years. The news was welcomed by organisations who have long campaigned for the reduction of backlogs in...
