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OP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law

OP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law

17th July 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Minos Mouzourakis The Greek government flouts basic asylum rules – again – by banning people irregularly arriving by boat from North Africa from claiming asylum. An amendment voted on 11 July has imposed a three-month ban on such people from applying for asylum and...
Philip Rudge – A Tireless Campaigner for Refugee Rights in Europe

Philip Rudge – A Tireless Campaigner for Refugee Rights in Europe

26th June 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Martin Barber and Jeff Crisp We were both working at the British Refugee Council (BRC) in 1984, when Philip Rudge arrived to set up the office of the modestly-named European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) on the top floor of 3-9 Bondway, in Vauxhall in...
OP-ED: The fall of the Dutch government – that took longer than expected

OP-ED: The fall of the Dutch government – that took longer than expected

19th June 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Michiel Kruyt and Femke de Vries On 3 June, the Dutch government collapsed. Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), walked out of the four-party coalition over a created dispute on asylum policy, effectively bringing down the cabinet of...
Proposed reform of the Safe Third Country concept

Proposed reform of the Safe Third Country concept

21st May 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

Background The 2024 agreement on the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR) in the Pact on Migration and Asylum included a review of the Safe Third Country (STC) concept due to disagreements among EU member states. The European Commission has completed the review and has...
EDITORIAL: “But who will pick our olives?” – Demographic decline and refugee inclusion

EDITORIAL: “But who will pick our olives?” – Demographic decline and refugee inclusion

8th May 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard Week after week, newspaper articles and research publications sound the alarm on the impact of Europe’s demographic crisis. Last week, a piece put the spotlight on Poland, arguing that this is not just an economic question but one of security....
EDITORIAL: Weaponisation of refugees in the Trump era – you ain’t seen nothing yet

EDITORIAL: Weaponisation of refugees in the Trump era – you ain’t seen nothing yet

27th February 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Catherine Woollard The talk among security analysts is of the US “decoupling” from Europe but what we’ve seen goes far beyond this. It is about open hostility, and the threat of coercion, conquest, and destruction in the pursuit of an ideological agenda. Yes, there...
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