22nd December 2021 | News
ECRE has published a Policy Note that analyses the European countries’ practices and policy reactions to the situation in Afghanistan, with focus on access to protection in Europe, evacuations, resettlement and safe pathways to Europe. After the fall of the Afghan...
17th December 2021 | News
On 14 December 2021, the European Commission presented two legislative proposals, a regulation addressing the situation of instrumentalisation in migration and asylum and a revision of the Schengen Borders Code. The proposal for a Regulation addressing the situation...
17th December 2021 | News
ECRE has published a document on past and current evacuation schemes available for Afghans; other pathways to protection; and the treatment of Afghan international protection applicants. The document compiles information collected from ECRE member organisations, the...
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...
