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...
A suicide attempt by a pregnant woman and children with thoughts of suicide illustrates the desperation in the Moria 2.0 camp in Kara Tepe. The closure of the ‘Filoxenia’ program providing temporary accommodation to asylum seekers means the eviction of up to almost...
European Parliament Scrutiny Working Group on Frontex starts work in the same week as the internal investigation of the Management Board delivers its report. Information of attempts to circumvent legal problems related to the purchase of firearms by relabelling them...
The crack down on the civil fleet by Italian authorities has intensified on several fronts over the course of the past two weeks. Criminal investigations were opened against parties involved in the rescue of 27 survivors in August 2020 that was followed by the longest...
