The updated AIDA Country Report on Greece tracks numerous legislative, policy and practice-related developments relating to the asylum procedure, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers, and content of international protection. While it mainly covers the...
The German federal state of Thuringia has agreed to receive 500 vulnerable people from Greek island camps. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) express concern about the consequences of the reduced timelimit on reception exposing 20,000 people to potential poverty and...
The reopening of Greek Asylum Services comes with chaos, uncertainty, and prevention of access to rights. Hundreds of unaccompanied children are detained in Greece. NGOs criticise new rigid requirements for registration and certification of NGO’s working to protect...
While Spain emptied its Immigration Detention Centres (centros de internamiento de extranjeros, CIEs) in response to Covid-19, the situation in Spanish enclaves continue to raise concern. The Ombudsman denounced a “hand-over“ by Spanish authorities from January as a...
Across Europe, people are anticipating the lifting of the lockdown with relief but also foreboding. The fear is a natural reaction to the economic predictions – not just a recession but a depression; mass unemployment; all compounded by the unpredictability of it all,...
