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...
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...
