17th December 2015 | News
Brussels, 16 December 2015. Ahead of their meeting on 17 and 18 December, ECRE calls on European leaders to provide new impetus to the formation of a European asylum and migration policy that: (i) fully respects the right to asylum and the principle of...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 During the third quarter of 2015 (July through September), 413,800 people applied for protection in the EU for the first time, an increase of 150% from the same quarter of 2014. The number almost doubled compared with the second quarter of this year,...
11th December 2015 | News
11 December 2015 On 10 December 2015, the European Commission sent a formal notice to Hungary which is the first step of infringement proceedings, in relation to recent reforms to its asylum laws. It previously raised concerns that they are incompatible with EU law on...
10th December 2015 | News
10 December 2015 The lastest AIDA update on Belgium highlights several shortcomings that asylum seekers face relating to accessing procedures and suitable reception; while the number of people seeking asylum in the country has significantly augmented since late summer...
20th November 2015 | News
20 November 2015 The Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament has published the study ‘Migrants in the Mediterranean: Protecting Human Rights’, which highlights that, up to 16 October, 613,179 persons arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean...