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No change in deeply dysfunctional Dublin system, AIDA figures reveal

17th March 2017 | News

A statistical update published by ECRE’s Asylum Information Database (AIDA) releasing figures for 12 European countries from 2016 reveals persisting fundamental dysfunctions in the Dublin system. The inefficiency is illustrated by disproportionately low transfers...

Lack of safe and legal routes results in ever more deadly journeys

10th March 2017 | News

UNHCR and MSF have released reports underlining the consequences of EU migration policies restricting access to the EU. Without safe and legal access to protection, migrants are at the mercy of smugglers and pushed to risk their lives on ever more dangerous routes....

EU eyeing up Tunisia for next migration deal?

3rd March 2017 | News

Planned visits by Germany and Italy as well as the EU Commission’s Renewed Action Plan and Third Progression report of the Migration Partnership Framework identifying Tunisia as one of the priority countries reveal increasing interest from EU and Member States in...

French-German proposal for CEAS and returns reduces protection to minimum standards

24th February 2017 | News

A leaked joint policy note prepared by German and French governments strongly affirms the intention to further limit access to protection in Europe by curtailing procedural guarantees in the CEAS. The policy note lays out a plan for a “crisis mechanism”, to operate in...

New detention centres at the external EU borders

24th February 2017 | News

Greece is building pre-removal detention facilities on the Aegean islands with the aim of accelerating the implementation of the EU-Turkey statement. These will be separate from the Reception and Identification Centres on the hotspots where newly arrived refugees and...

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