9 October 2015 Calais is making the headlines since this summer because of the hundreds of people trying to stow away on lorries or to enter the Eurotunnel in desperate attempts to reach the UK. Tragically, there have been 15 deaths since June. While the number of...
6 March 2015 On 4 March, the European Commission announced plans for a new ‘European Agenda on Migration’. The College of Commissioners identified four main priority areas: “fighting irregular migration and human trafficking more robustly”; “securing Europe’s external...
30 January 2015 ECRE is recruiting for two positions: a Senior Legal Officer and a coordinator of the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Project. The Senior Legal Officer is part of ECRE’s Legal and Policy Team and takes the lead in strengthening ECRE’s activities...
The Expert Roundtable on EU policies supporting development and lasting solutions for displaced populations, organised jointly by ECRE, UNHCR and the European Commission in Brussels on 13 October 2014, was the final and concluding event to the two year long DOMAID...