19th February 2021 | News
After a short initial flurry of media coverage and debate, the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum has disappeared from view, with public and political attention focused on COVID, recovery, Brexit, government changes and so on. Most independent commentators,...
19th February 2021 | News
With Greece facing a record winter and contrary to first-hand accounts, Secretary General of reception of Asylum Seekers, Manos Logothetis and Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis report no problems in Moria 2.0. Despite mounting and conclusive evidence,...
19th February 2021 | News
Following months of controversy, scrutiny and complaints over the conduct of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the European Ombudsman has opened another investigation, this time into access to information concerning the location of agency vessels...
19th February 2021 | News
Five Eritreans have filed lawsuit against Italian authorities, a shipping company and a skipper over a pushback to Libya in 2018. Following a shipwreck off Lampedusa, 22 people remain missing at sea, one body has been retrieved, and 25 people have been returned to...
19th February 2021 | News
The first half of February has seen a significant drop of arrivals to the Canary Islands but a new report highlights the remaining root causes, lack of alternatives and consequences of deportations and failed attempts. For the second time within six months the Spanish...
19th February 2021 | News
A report on fundamental rights violations in Calais and Grande-Synthe was published this week amid new reports on pushbacks from France to Italy. In its report of 12 February, the Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l’Homme (National Consultative...
