Op-ed: Are Most Asylum Seekers Really Not Credible?
By Michala Clante Bendixen, founder of the Danish organisation Refugees Welcome and the information website REFUGEES.DK. ”Rejected asylum seekers must respect the decision and return home” – it sounds plausible enough to be the political consensus. But a prerequisite...
Asylum in Europe 2019: human rights under pressure
Evidence from the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) shows that compliance with existing EU asylum law should be a priority The Asylum Information Database (AIDA) is a database managed by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), containing up-to-date and...
Weekly Editorial: Wishful Waiting: Four Reasons to Curb Our Impatience for the Pact
The Commission’s priorities have been re-ordered due the COVID emergency, and rightly so. Although it is apparently ready to be published, we will be waiting longer for the long-awaited European Pact on Asylum and Migration. There is still a slim chance that it is...