Italy plans to curtail appeals rights in asylum procedures

2nd September 2016 | News

The Italian Justice Minister has announced in a recent hearing the intention to abolish the second-instance judicial (“onward”) appeal before the Court of Appeal (Corte d’Appello) available to asylum seekers whose appeal against a negative asylum decision has...

Only 3,000 people relocated from Greece and Italy in ten months

15th July 2016 | News

The European Commission’s Fifth Report on Relocation and Resettlement published on 13 July finds that the relocation system has many deficiencies, including a lack of relocations generally, lengthy response times and hardly any relocations of unaccompanied...