23 January 2015 On Wednesday 21 January, the newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, has instructed Germany’s Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) not to return asylum seekers to Greece for a further...
4 July 2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the return of an Afghan asylum seeker from Austria to Hungary under the Dublin Regulation would not violate Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on...
27 June 2014 On 26 June 2014, the European Commission published a proposal to amend Article 8(4) of the Dublin III Regulation, which determines the Member State responsible for examining the asylum application of an unaccompanied child. Currently, Article 8(4)...
13 June 2014 ECRE has submitted a letter to the European Council in advance of their next meeting on 26-27 June, at which the EU Heads of State and Government will adopt strategic guidelines for further legislative and operational planning in the area of freedom,...
16 May 2014 A new AIDA report by the Dutch Council for Refugees on the asylum procedure, detention and reception conditions in the Netherlands has been published this week. The update explains the new Dutch criteria for detaining asylum seekers pending their removal...