All eyes are on Italy as a new government is formed. The situation looks volatile and unpredictable, with a political novice as Prime Minister and a coalition bringing together a new populist movement, Cinque Stella, and a revitalised Lega (no longer Nord but still...
The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and ECRE’s member ASGI, with support from ARCI and the Yale Law School, have submitted a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of survivors and the parents of two children who died when a boat sank in the...
On Monday, Italy’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against the seizure of the Iuventa, a rescue ship operated by the German NGO Jugend Ruttet (‘Youth Rescue’). The vessel was seized last summer after an investigation by the Italian authorities into the operation of...
On 30 March 2018, French border guards raided the NGO Rainbow for Africa, which operates at the train station of the Italian city of Bardonecchia at the Alpine border with France. The guards, who were armed, entered the NGO facility, forced a migrant to take a urine...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Italy documents developments in the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection throughout 2017. The year 2017 has been chatacterised by media, political and judicial...
