The perilous journey along the Atlantic route continues to cost lives and survivors often arrive exhausted and in critical condition to the Canary Islands. A court in Tenerife has put an end to the practice of detaining people for deportation based on old return...
A new Council of Europe report highlights Europe’s failure to respect human rights and to save lives in the Mediterranean. This year’s death toll in the Mediterranean increases to almost 300 people, including 39 deaths following two shipwrecks off Tunisia earlier this...
Two young asylum seekers sentenced for arson in burned-down Moria camp. Inadequate reception, dire conditions in camps, pushbacks and crack-down on civil society remains the order of the day. In a controversial ruling the Juvenile Court of Mytilene has sentenced two...
When it comes to asylum in Europe, major implementation gaps remain, and violations remain unaddressed. At the same time, it is full steam ahead on the external dimension of asylum and migration policy, as ECRE’s analysis published this week shows. The publication of...
By Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen. In early February 2021, the Danish Frederiksen government tabled a legislative proposal for public consultation. It is based on a...
By Anaïs Faure Atger, head of the migration unit at the Red Cross EU Office. This week, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) published new research conducted by eight National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies across the...
ECRE published a Policy Note which analyses the substantive changes to EU external affairs proposed by the Pact and related EU policy developments. A significant part of the not so fresh start heralded in the Pact on Migration and Asylum published last year is the...
This Policy Note offers ECRE’s analysis of the Joint Declaration on Migration Cooperation (JDMC) between the EU and Afghanistan. The Joint Declaration on Migration Cooperation (JDMC) between the European Union (EU) and Afghanistan has been finalised. The title is...
On 12 March 2021, ECRE published a legal note on ‘Asylum and the UN Treaty System’. The note aims to analyse how access to asylum can be advanced via international legal avenues, especially by focusing on the prohibition of refoulement as an imperative element of an...
The Working Paper written by Dr Laura Davis examines EU external funding for asylum and migration by analysing asylum and migration-related spending in the previous MFF (2014-2019). It is an attempt to understand how much money the EU spent on migration and...
