EU Eastern Borders: Poland Opposes EU Migration Pact Amid Permanent State of Emergency Along its Border — MSF Concludes its Activities in Belarus After Two Years — Migrants Manage to Reach Finland Despite Tight Border Controls — Human Rights Defender on Trial in Latvia for Assisting Migrants — Lithuania Closes Two More Border Checkpoints while Austria Calls for Talks over Repatriations to Afghanistan and Syria
A new report on the situation along the Poland-Belarus border has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the fence while the government looks to secure exemptions from certain elements in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. After two years of providing essential services...
UK: Record Number of Asylum Requests Granted but Huge Backlogs Remain and Channel Crossings and Deaths Continue ― Demands for Enquiries into Maritime Search and Rescue Responses and Treatment of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children ― More Setbacks for Rwanda Bill Amid Revelations About High Costs of Policy ― Agreement to Work with “Calais Group” to Disrupt Supply of Small Boats ― Minister Discusses Possible Migration Co-operation with Libya
The latest Home Office statistics show that over 62,000 people were granted refugee status or other protection in 2023 but that more than 95,000 were still awaiting an initial decision while hundreds more people have crossed the Channel in small boats and a child has...
OP-ED: Two years since the triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive: The dilemma of unity over fragmentation for the transitioning phase
By Viktoryia Vaitovich Two years after the first-ever triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) – a collective and unanimous move to provide safety and immediate access to rights to those displaced by the war in Ukraine – the EU and its member states (MS)...