10th September 2021 | News
The Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to authorise the Border Force to turn back boats crossing the channel, despite opposition from France, trade unions, international lawyers, refugee advocates and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). As many as 1,200 people crossed the...
10th September 2021 | News
The decision of the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA) to consider Afghan applications through the lens of the UN Refugee Convention marks a change from the previous practice of granting most Afghans subsidiary protection under EU law. Afghans enjoying protection...
10th September 2021 | News
Bulgarian politicians are debating reinforcement of police stationed at borders with Greece and Turkey, citing moderately increased numbers of people attempting irregular crossings. More than 1,000 indirect pushbacks were recorded over the first eight months of 2021,...
10th September 2021 | News
On 1 July a judgment of the Regional Administrative Court of Styria concluded that “pushbacks are to some extent methodically applied in Austria”. Following the documentation of another pushback case involving an underage Somalian national, ECRE member...
3rd September 2021 | News
The latest Legal Note provides ECRE’s assessment of recent changes to asylum legislation in Lithuania and their impact, with reference to compliance with EU and international law. The amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens adopted in July and August 2021...
3rd September 2021 | News
During the week of the rentrée, the Justice and Home Affairs Council demonstrated that it is still possible to produce something shocking in the field of asylum and migration (also known as the common anti-asylum and selective migration policy). Having lived through...
3rd September 2021 | News
On 31 August the Slovenian Presidency convened an extraordinary meeting of the Home Affairs Ministers on the situation on Afghanistan. The next day, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) organised a hearing to discuss...
3rd September 2021 | News
The claims of more than 4,500 asylum seekers, including Afghans, have been put on hold while the Home Office seeks readmission agreements with EU member states. The number of people waiting for an initial asylum decision is up 73%, leaving 70,905 people with pending...
3rd September 2021 | News
In “one of the biggest ever rescues” on the Mediterranean, 539 lives were saved off the coast of Italy, with at least 20 survivors displaying signs of torture in Libya. Recent data from the UN agencies reveal increased arrivals in Italy and steep drop in arrivals in...
3rd September 2021 | News
Recent shipwrecks en route to the Spanish Canary Islands have cost at least 195 lives, as a trend of increasing arrivals since 2019 continues. NGOs estimate at least 2,000 people have died whilst attempting to cross to the Canaries since the start of this year. On 30...
