Interview: ECtHR puts a (temporary) halt to deportations from Greece without prior assessment

25th September 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

Interview with Minos Mouzourakis – Greek attorney-at-law registered with the Athens Bar Association and Legal & Advocacy Officer at ECRE member organisation Refugee Support Aegean) Dear Minos, you and your colleagues at Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) have...

OP-ED: Belgium’s reception ban for M-status holders: Testing the limits of EU law and human dignity

25th September 2025 | Editorials / Op-eds, News

By Thomas Willekens Since 4 August 2025, families with small children who have applied for international protection are sleeping rough in Brussels. This is not due to a lack of places in the reception system but the direct consequence of a new federal policy....

OP-ED: The Road to Nowhere? A Critique of the ‘Route-Based Approach’ to Migration and Asylum

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

By Jeff Crisp Irregular arrivals For the past 40 years, the governments of wealthy countries in the Global North have been striving to curtail the arrival of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants from less prosperous parts of the world. In the eyes of these...

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

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

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...