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...
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...
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...
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....
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...