On July 8, EASO released its Annual Report on the situation of asylum in the European Union in 2012. In 2012, 335,365 asylum applications were filed in the EU, which constitutes an increase of 11% compared to 2011. According to the report, applicants from Afghanistan...
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed the Maltese government a Rule 39 interim order blocking the return of around 45 Somali migrants from Malta to Libya. The decision was prompted by an application brought by the Jesuit Refugee Service and...
A new report by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) illustrates that Member States are dragging their feet in the implementation of some of the protective provisions of the Returns Directive such as the monitoring of returns and the need to provide alternatives to...
A study by the Jesuit Refugee Service, based on interviews with 257 asylum seekers, shows that over half knew little or nothing about Dublin procedures, which limited their ability to challenge their transfer to another country. The research finds that detainees are...
“We, the Member States, the Commission and European Parliament have not reached our goals of further harmonisation and substantially raising the standard of protection”, Harke Heida, Director of the Migration Policy Department of the Ministry of Security and Justice...