11th December 2020 | News
By Giacomo Manca Policy Officer (ECRE & PICUM) – EU Funding for Inclusion On the 24 November 2020, Commissioner Ylva Johansson and vice president Margaritis Schinas released the new Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion, preceded by an open consultation...
11th December 2020 | News
By Ira Iliana Papadopoulou, sociologist and communications specialist currently serving as Communications & Events Manager at Greek Council for Refugees (GCR). A brief review of the last thirty years of Greek history will demonstrate that the country is no...
11th December 2020 | News
New regulations for the operation of temporary reception structures from Greek authorities include a confidentiality clause preventing NGO personnel from disclosing information. The so-called Moria 2.0 in Kara Tepe was established on a former military firing range,...
11th December 2020 | News
Heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures in Bosnia and Herzegovina pose a serious threat to around 3,000 people who are forced to sleep rough in the northwest of the country and 1,600 people staying in a substandard tented camp. Further, people on the move continue...
11th December 2020 | News
On Wednesday 9 December, the European Parliament and the Council have reached a political agreement over the budgetary priorities of EU asylum, migration and integration policies over the next seven years. The renewed Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF),...
11th December 2020 | News
In the first nine months of the year, six out of ten appeals by Afghan asylum seekers were decided positively by administrative courts. A deportation flight to Afghanistan is scheduled for next week. Interior minister wants to blur deportation ban to Syria. Unused...
11th December 2020 | News
France and Morocco have signed an agreement facilitating the forced return of Moroccan unaccompanied children. Crackdown on migrants in Calais continues. On 7 December, the French Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, and his Moroccan counterpart, Mohamed Ben...
11th December 2020 | News
£1m has been pledged to support community sponsorship schemes. More than 60 organisations call for an end to the housing of asylum seekers in old army barracks. Further, 40 organisations and lawyers call for the release of immigration detainees from prisons. The Home...
11th December 2020 | News
On 15 October 2020, the Supreme Court of Spain confirmed that an Iraqi national who applied for a transfer from Greece to Spain in the Spanish embassy in Athens had to be transferred to Spain, where he can apply for international protection. In its assessment of the...
11th December 2020 | News
1,600 Rohingya refugees have been moved from camps in Cox’s Bazar to the Bhasan Char island in the Bay of Bengal, according to the foreign ministry the plan is to relocate 100,000 people. The relocation has been met with an outcry by human rights NGOs and the UN...
