A Dutch MEP and a Bulgarian NGO have renewed their concerns about migrant pushbacks on the Bulgarian-Turkish border and questioned the use of the EU’s funding to Bulgaria. Two Serbian NGOs have claimed that the Hungarian government’s migration policy has...
The EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) is investigating two new allegations of migrant pushbacks in the Aegean Sea. The governments of eight EU member states have issued a joint statement on migration in which they have called for the situation in Syria to be...
The Council of the EU has given its final approval to the Pact on Migration and Asylum despite strong opposition from a small number of member states, including Poland. Poland has joined a group of member states that has asked the European Commission to propose ‘new...
A number of EU member states are preparing to send a letter to the European Commission to call for agreements that would enable intercepted migrants to be transferred to third countries before they reach Europe. The EU has signed a ‘migration management’ deal with...
The updated AIDA Country Report on the Netherlands provides a detailed overview of legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2023. It also includes...