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...
6th February 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Karl Kopp and Wiebke Judith By aligning itself with the far right, so-called Alternative for Germany (AfD), to push through brazenly unlawful asylum and migration policies, Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) under Friedrich Merz are not merely undermining legal...
30th January 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Catherine Woollard Before the inauguration of Trump, there was a lot of discussion both inside and outside the US of strategies for managing his pending arrival. It already looks very naïve after the blitz of measures unleashed, many of them truly alarming in terms...
13th December 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Tareq Alaows, Refugee Policy Spokesperson at ECRE member organisation PRO ASYL The fall of the Assad regime in Syria is undoubtedly a historic event – one that many people in Syria and around the world experienced with mixed emotions: full of hope yet tinged with...
13th December 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Catherine Woollard While Europe grappled with the momentous events in Syria, other developments this week may also have a lasting impact on refugees in Europe. As well as a heavy agenda at and in the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council, on...
5th December 2024 | Editorials / Op-eds, News
By Catherine Woollard As the new Commission takes office, and the politics suggests darker days for asylum in Europe, ECRE suggests some Do’s and Don’ts on asylum and migration. Do… implement the law Should go without saying but in this area of law it doesn’t. The...
