JHA Council: New Proposals, Old Problems
A German non-paper on a reform of the common European asylum system proposes a new distribution mechanism for asylum seekers in the EU and the processing of asylum application in transit centres at the external EU borders. German ECRE member Pro Asyl warns of...
Human Rights Watch: Denial of Education for Rohingya Refugee Children
On 3 December 2019, Human Rights Watch published a report entitled “Are We Not Human?” which analyses the Bangladeshi government’s policy to deny education for over 400,000 Rohingya refugee children. The report urges the Bangladeshi government to end its policy...
Weekly Editorial: Containment instead of Protection – EU Politics in Greece and the Balkans
The last few weeks have seen a spate of developments that will have a lasting and probably damaging impact on the EU’s relations with its neighbours to the southeast – and also on the tens of thousands seeking protection who remain in limbo in the region, in many...